The Selfish Gene: "Your eyes are like two twinkling... puddles of mud" (3)

“The gene for brown eyes is dominant for the gene for blue eyes.” (Dawkins 26)

Here’s the thing, out of my four grandparents, three had blue eyes, one had green eyes and one had brown eyes: that makes three with light eyes against one with dark eyes. My mom has brown eyes and my dad has blue eyes. Both my dad’s parent had blue eyes so it makes sense that he would have them too. My mom’s mom had green eyes and my grandfather had brown eyes, and unluckily yet understandably, my mom has brown eyes. Now, my mom guessed I was going to have light eyes… and damn I wish she was right.
When I was a kid, about five years old, I always told people my eyes were blue. Around the age of seven I understood it wasn’t true and finally admitted my eyes were brown… but they were GOING to turn blue later on. When I finally stepped out of denial and realized I was a brown-eyed girl, I was up for anything to make my eyes blue, which was a good thing for my mom.
According to my mom my eyes would only turn blue if I ate my veggies, did my homework and cleaned my room. It was a lot of hard work only to go through about another year of maturity and then learn that it was virtually impossible for my eyes to become blue.
“My name is Kristie and I’m in AA because my eyes are brown”