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I got my first pretty-good haircut in my 40s, and my first great haircut in my late children's books 50s. My mother, knowing it would cheer me up in my drab situation, and perhaps in penance for lost time, children's books started giving me gift certificates for inexcusably expensive haircuts at Bumble & bumble, which had been recommended by her gay hairdresser and dear friend (a great guy who also cut children's books my grandmother's hair and has cut mine and most of my sisters'; he's given to oracular, spot-on pronouncements like "Your whole family hides behind the intellect"). The very first time I happened to get one of their best (and most expensive) stylists, a poignantly innocent artist who cuts and plays with hair as if it was sculpture, and who actually travels around teaching other people how to do it. And damned if we didn't also bond in the ancient and honorable relationship of a woman and her gay hairdresser, and exchange intimate confidences while he revels in the almost metallic properties of my hair.
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