"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.

BBC: Marie Supikova

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.

ECONOMIST: Aiding Africa

She still hadn't found the dog, a chubby blonde lab named Gracie, on Wednesday.

CNN: One block, two tornadoes: Life in the crosshairs

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.

FORBES: How Can One Travel More Ethically?

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.

NPR: Aaron Glantz: 'How America Lost Iraq'

Early evening and popped into a fringe meeting where a blonde and beautifully manicured Ann Widdecombe was telling the audience that democracy isn't dead but is certainly having a real snooze.

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