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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: My husband has shaved his head for a newspaper feature

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27 June 2015

9:00 AM

27 June 2015

9:00 AM

Q. My partner, a leading political commentator on a national newspaper, recently agreed to shave off his hair at the suggestion of his editor, in order to write and illustrate a feature piece on the charms of baldness. The timing, at the height of the summer season, could of course not be more embarrassing.

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