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has one brown eye and one blue eye. No one on either side of the family ever had brown eyes that we know of. I was born blonde. My father's side of the family had dark brown hair; my mother's side had black hair. No one could figure out where the blonde came from. I have freckles, but I tan easily. One of my sisters has no freckles and is pale all year. You just never know how mutts will turn out and that's the great thing about America - we're mostly mutts!