My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.

Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.

A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.

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