A ton of people said over the last two days that they love my hair -- one of my mom's cousins even told me (in Mom's earshot!) that she was in the minority for not liking it :) I tried hard not to laugh/be too smug at this, and I know she was still complaining about the hair to people when she thought I couldn't tell, so I guess we're even :)

Thanks for your deep and well-worded sympathy and you have been useful, so ner ;)