the make light journal

the make light journal

a remembering

who were we before social media?

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Karen Walrond
Mar 18, 2024
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This past Friday.

When I was about 10 years old, my mother cut all of my hair off. I’ve always had incredibly thick hair, and my mom decided that it was just too much to handle, for me or for her, so off it came. And although it meant that most strangers thought I was a boy (this drove me nuts), I couldn’t deny that having such short hair was freeing — n…

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