I had not noticed your hair was read in your avatar. Red/auburn hair runs in the family on both my Dad's and Mom's side. One of us was bound to get it. I was blonde as a young child, then it darkened, with red/yellow highlights and got considerably darker by college. But I got the freckles and the extremely fair complexion that burns if I even get 15 minutes of direct sun. So I figure I probably came real close to ending up a red head.