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Weekly Contest #341
It is an overwhelming thing to be a teenage girl with curly hair. My curls emerged suddenly when I was thirteen years old, inherited from my mother and my grandmother. It seemed like overnight my head had been deluged in corkscrews of DNA, double-helixes unspooling into snarled frizz. I quickly grew frustrated with my hair and its new disobedience to composure, cracking comb teeth and tangling rubber bands into my roots. What was one supposed to do with hair like this? What had I done to deserve curls like mine?I began seeking answers in my ...
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