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A Message from the Goddess

Our Reader Score [Total: 13   Average: 3.1/5]A Message from the Goddess Barb and Carla have been best friends since second grade.  During high school they traveled in different crowds, but stayed in touch.  After graduation Carla went to community college and found an office job with an...
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Fear Remembered (Part 1)

Our Reader Score [Total: 4   Average: 1.8/5]Sitting here in my car I am looking towards Erin’s Barber Shop with the fear I had remembered for years. Years which go back to my childhood, my preteen years. Years I spent staring up at people in the chair, as...
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Fear Remembered (Part 2)

Our Reader Score [Total: 8   Average: 2.4/5]I could hardly believe it had been so long, thirty-three years. Those times I would wash my hair hoping something would make the ends nice and even. To wish the split ends away. “Fear” is in the mind they say. It...
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Fear Remembered (Part 3)

Our Reader Score [Total: 7   Average: 2/5]I looked at the picture. The woman had black hair but you could still see how short her hair was cut. It was as short as my brother’s hair was cut for the summer months. “CLICK.”…. I jumped when I heard...
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It’s Just a Haircut, Isn’t It?

Our Reader Score [Total: 18   Average: 2.7/5]This is part self-exploration trying to explain how and why I feel as I do. Part almost therapy I guess. Some of the cuts are 100% truthful recollections as I explored this side of what it is to be me. Some...
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Samantha’s Coming Out Haircut

Our Reader Score [Total: 21   Average: 2.4/5]Samantha eased herself into the large chair as the barber unfolded a white striped cloth that completely covered her conservative navy slacks and ivory blouse.  He fastened the cape behind her neck, selected a black comb from the jar on the...
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Hair Frenzy

Our Reader Score [Total: 16   Average: 2.5/5]Holly “Are there any questions?” I asked, relieved that my long presentation was over. I flipped my hair back over my shoulder with a practiced flick of the neck as I scanned the room for questions and was ecstatic when I...
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Always Thinking “Short Hair”

Our Reader Score [Total: 20   Average: 2.7/5]For years I have thinking about cutting my hair short but everyone kept telling me how great I looked with long hair. No one could tell why when I asked them. They would shrug their shoulders and reply, “You just do!”...
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Baseball Haircut

Our Reader Score [Total: 22   Average: 2.8/5]I was seven years old when I got my first haircut at a barbershop. It was the first of many to follow. But the first one was not my choice, nor what my mother wanted. You see I was somewhat of...
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Five Years Ago

Our Reader Score [Total: 9   Average: 2.3/5]Part I — Was it a game! “Hey, where you two off to?” I called to Billy and Ryan as they came out the driveway of Ryan’s house on their bicycles. “Going to the new barber shop in the mall,” Ryan...
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