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...age. I can relate to that because I can clearly see some of these processes happening to me as I have grown through the years. When I was in my teens through my thirties, I had a head full of hair. Now that I'm forty six, it is thinning. Oh, boy is it thinning; it is so obvious that I can see the ball spots. Looks like every time that I wash my hair, I loose a lot more of it; making my hair even thinner. I wear wigs in order to hide my thinning hair; I possess a few different wigs for different moods and occasions. I know that this is an attempt to hide my baldness from the world. No one would be able to tell if they were to see me without my wig because I wear my hair natural and its braid and gathered up in a ponytail. I have taken all of these precautions to hide the loosing of my crowning glory.
I guess that I shouldn't be ashamed of it since it is a natural stage of life that I'm going through, but for some reason I want my hair back so that I can display its glory even though it's more salt than pepper. That is another aspect the aging process; however, I am a little skeptical about this one because I started going gray in my twenties. My family has a predisposition of premature graying. My younger brother is thirty seven years old and he's almost as gray as I am. I went to the Department of Motor Vehicles to renew my license and while I was reading the chart and calling out the letters; I realized that I couldn't see all of them clearly. The young lady was kind and let me try until I got them right, but you better believe that I took myself straight to the optician to get my eyes examined. She said that my eyes weren't bad; I was far-sighted and needed them for driving or watching television. That was a shock for me because I had always had 20/20 vision.
I remember growing up and being reed thin. It was too thin of course; at least people...
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