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Assigning one color to one sex

it is strange to me that a color means something by itself, it elicits memories and experiences orange is my go-to color, not blue or pink yet did they dress me in orange when I was a baby? in the fifties? I rather doubt it. Actually, most of the photos of me as a baby show me in a diaper and nothing else and there are lots of them. When I think blue I think neither boy or girl I think, sky, the eyes of one of my children and the sea blue is a color I always reach for when I am painting for I despise a white background I have painted more skies and seas than most Probably fifteen hundred skies and seas color is important to me; I would not want to live in a world without it But I could never assign one color to either sex. Or all boys or all girls Since no two children are the same.

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