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A little girl didn't like her hair because her head was full of curls. Every time when her mom combed it, she was crying. "Don't be so squeamish!!!", said her mom then. The girl looked at her mom."I am not squeamish, the comb hurts me, that's all", she said. "Why do I have so many curls, mom?", she asked.

Her mom was a freelancer at a publishing house. She was always busy and in hurry and had not enough time to comb the hair of her daughter carefully enough or even to answer her questions.

The little girl became upset more and more and she was afraid to wake up in the mornings. She developed a strategy to escape from the daily procedure of combing. She pretended to have to go to the bathroom urgently.

She was sitting on the toilet bowl until she heard her mom leaving the house. Despite her young age was she already versed in clairvoyance, at least in terms of her mom's time management. She could predict exactly that her mom never would wait until she would come out of the bathroom.

She left alone with her granny and when her granny asked her to comb her hair, she used a small subterfuge, she told her granny she got combed by her mom. Her granny did not see so well and so she believed the little girl.

With the time became the curls matted and the little girl did not know what to do, she had to solve an almost insurmountable problem: how is it possible to unravel her curls? She used a comb with wide comb teeth but she failed again and again. Thank God, she was a very indefatigable little person and so she didn't throw in the towel. One day she took a scissor while her granny was sitting before the TV.
She went to the bathroom and cut off her hair.

Then she made it wet and how through a miracle she was able to unravel the rest of her curls. From this day on she did comb her hair by herself and she never more felt pain while combing.