A couple of heards:

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> "Red-headed stepchild" is the way I heard it, maybe thirty years ago.


Me, too. But, "like a red-neck relative" and "like a mixed-blood stepchild"
strike me as recent variants. But...


Youneverknow.


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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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