Moving Closer Toward Myself
<p>I have had so many different hairstyles in my life. Chalk that up to a meandering level of confidence, or just plain boredom. Who knows. But I’ve looked like a lot of different versions of me over the past 42 years.</p>
<p>When I was a toddler, they had me in blunt bangs — the kind that take over half your head so you’re just splitting which half goes forward, and which half goes backward.</p>
<p>And then so many headbands. Those god-awful plastic ones with the tiny teeth that poked bleeding holes into your scalp every time you wore them. The kind that snapped in two every time you took it off. I hated wearing those headbands, but that was not the point. The point was that I had to wear those headbands.</p>
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