Lanie R

Debra

Her days walking in the path of life were many but Debra was still not considered an elder by her community. Did she have to wear a jamboree of white hair? Did she have to walk with a cane or be bent in some informal position? What would it take for her to reach elder status? She remembered her friend Cynthia who looked young all her life because of her black curly hair. Only in the last five years of Cynthia's life did she start to show white hair. Cynthia was full blood Cherokee.