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The Bad Hair Day l My little nine-year-old daughter, Elliana, came down the stairs to where I was making breakfast. “Dad, I need to dress up like in the olden days for school today.” “Okay,” I answered. “We have some pioneer costumes in the closet downstairs. You can look through them.” “No,” she replied. “Not the pioneer days. The 70's and 80's, when you were younger. What did you wear back then?” It took me a minute to recover from hearing the years I went to high school called the olden days. When I finally did, I told her she probably ought to ask her mother for something that girls wore. Elliana found her mother, and asked if we had something she could wear for 70's and 80's days at school. “The olden days,” I added. “But I don’t want to look stupid,” Elli complained. “We didn’t look stupid,” I told her. 5