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The Bald Truth: how hair loss is more traumatic than you think

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Truth counts for nothing when it comes to baldness, because baldness stinks. Being bald stinks. Going bald stinks. Knowing that you might one day go bald stinks. The whole thing, from start to finish, whichever way you look at it, stinks all the way to high heaven. It is awful. If you happen to be going through it at the moment, I truly feel for you.

I recently got word of a study that itemises all the ways in which impacts people, and it’s heartbreaking. Bald or balding , it

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