Irish police remove blonde child from Roma family

[moriah]

59. Yep, it's far more uncommon but not unheard of.

I mentioned my mom's eyes, and it shows that at least with eye color, it's not all just like peas. Her parents both had blue eyes, but not the more usual color of what I heard called "Irish blue" growing up -- Grandpa's eyes were a very pale blue, and Granny's were blue-grey. So Mom having golden eyes, but dark, was quite surprising. Since the green gene has come through her, though, I suspect that her unusual eye color has something to do with it.

If my grandmother was not such a ... well, she gave me a lot of sex education lectures growing up, and I gathered she was not at *all* fond of the act .... I'd have been far more questioning of my mother's paternity. But they have similar body builds, some similar facial features, and then the ginger gene apparently came from his side (of his 5 living siblings when he was born, two were ginger, and there were an awful lot of strawberry blondes on that side).

To find a blonde that stayed blonde throughout adulthood in my family, without any red, you have to go to two of my mother's nieces on her mother's side. They're both blonde and blue, their parents dark haired but both blue-eyed. My younger sister, who grown looks just like my paternal grandmother, was blonde as a child but it darkened, and always had dark eyes.