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Unexpected FRIENDSHIPS

‘She’s taught me so much’

Emma Vardy, 49, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, lives near Warrington with her husband James, 50, and their 11-year-old daughter.

Anyone with fine hair knows, the wrong haircut can be a disaster. So when I first went to Claire, now 43, in her salon in Leeds for a cut 23 years ago, I knew we’d see each other again – she did such a brilliant job! But I didn’t imagine we’d become such close friends. At the time, I was a trainee doctor in Leeds working in respiratory medicine, so our occupations were very different, but we clicked straightaway. As the years – and haircuts – went

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