Braces

I got braces for my teeth on Halloween day when I was in the seventh grade. To commemorate the occasion, I had the dentist put orange and black bands around the metal fasteners attached to my teeth. It would be the first of many color changes over the next two years. Red and green for Christmas. Red, white, and blue for the 4th of July. Brown and orange for Thanksgiving.

But my go to color combination for all other occasions was blue and white. I don’t know why, but that was always my favorite. Fascinating that years later I would marry a woman from Greece, whose flag is blue and white.