Cancer Truth Note: #96
You do not appreciate the purpose of eyebrows, eyelashes, and fingerprints until they are gone.
I cannot say that I ever gave a thought to the purpose of eyebrows and eyelashes as a means to keep things out of my eyes until a client lost both. I remember having a hysterical conversation about all the purposes of hair we had never considered. I didn’t lose all of my eyebrows or eyelashes, both thinned quite a bit. The fingerprints were the weirdest. Check back tomorrow for more on that.
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