On this day in 1776,
Betsy Ross received an urgent letter from her ugly step sister Mona.
"Dearest Betsy, it would be so fun to make the stars of the flag in like the shape of a pineapple.
Pineapples would make our Thirteen Colonies
feel like so much more more like welcoming.
Butterfly greetings,
Ugly Mona."
We don't know if Betsy liked pineapples.
We don't know if Ugly Mona was really ugly
(or really, really ugly).
But we do know that Betsy burned that letter
and replied with a note that said,
"No! No ugly Mona, I will not have a pineapple flag.
I will not have it hanging here. I will not have it hanging there. I will not hang it on a rope.
Ugly Mona, you're such a dope!
Kindest regards, Betsy."
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