"I wasn't perfect because I didn't have really blonde hair, but I was very lucky and happy that they had chosen me, " she added.

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My sister had a certain pale, bright beauty, while I was an almost blonde, a shadowy hybrid.

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One of them, I thought, had blonde hair.

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It was blonde, platinum blonde all the way, I would think, up into the '70s.

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And that to many on the street in Jordan, as a Western T-shirted and jeans-wearing blonde middle-aged woman, I fit somewhere between and outside of gender, an entirely different kind of alien other, a sort of free-ranging cash cow perhaps better avoided.

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At last, I spotted Mr Grohl - accompanied by a gorgeous blonde and his mother.

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And the only reason that something bad didn't happen in that moment is that I was with a French colleague and he was blonde.

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And then I also loved Jane Mansfield, because Jane Mansfield had the blonde hair and had like the poochie lips and the mole and all this.

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While she isn't 25 years old, blonde and eagerly willing to laugh at my stupid jokes, at least when she flirts with me I know it's for real.

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