This post is
part of Think Kit by SmallBox.
January 28,
2016 prompt: “Alternative History: Imagine how
your life today would be different if an event in history would've gone another
way. What if the British defeated the American colonies during the
Revolutionary War? What if Prohibition never ended? What if the 9/11 terrorist
attacks never took place? What if...”
What If…
I really don’t
play the what if game. I am thankful
I am who I am. However, I did wonder once, what my life would have been like
had I been a boy. Mama was very strict and I grew up during the ‘70s, so there
would have been no long hair for me.
I thought it
would have been cool to be a “Junior” though. As it was, I sort of am a junior—I was named
after my Mama, GrandMother, and an Aunt. My Sister, of the enviable auburn hair
and awesome figure, also has a feminized version of Daddy’s name. Some girls
have all the luck.
I once asked
Mama what my name would have been had I been a boy. I thought she would tell me
I would have been Daddy’s junior. I was wrong. Very wrong.
Had I been a
boy, I would have been named, Drexel Wayne—a name I had never heard before, so
I asked about it. I liked the reason she gave for Wayne—which of course, was
after The Duke, John Wayne, who was all the rage. And it also
alluded to Mamas maiden name of Duke. But I was puzzled over the Drexel until
she told me…
It’s a
street name in Dallas.
Yep, I would
have been a dweeby outcast with a buzz cut and no facial hair named after a
movie icon and a street.
I remain thankful
I am who I am and there is no alternative history in my life.
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