Jessica Robyn, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/jessica-robyn/ A Home for Black Women Writers Mon, 20 Nov 2023 05:53:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Jessica Robyn, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/jessica-robyn/ 32 32 153713158 Hair Heir https://www.midnightandindigo.com/hair-heir/ Sat, 08 Oct 2022 14:24:50 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=78645 “I like your locs!” This is what he said to me as I exited the car. I was enamored. For some reason, his verbalized approval meant a whole lot more than it probably should have. Hours earlier, we were sitting at a bar in downtown Chicago on Christmas Day. As I watched him talk about his experiences in Los Angeles versus Chicago, and continuously, unnecessarily apologize for his extremely un-politically correct sense of humor, my eyes naturally gazed upon his own locs, very similar to mine in texture, length, and size, but clearly more mature. Each one curled and coiled

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