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Weekly Contest #280
As clumps of my waist-long, straight brown hair fell out in the shower on New Year's Day, 1998, I was thinking, "If I have a bald spot, I'm going to sue her!" Crystal, the tattooed girl who tore out my hair was technically an adult at 18 and I was 17, so this logic made sense to me, even though I had no knowledge or means of suing anyone. Crystal regularly smirked and made snide remarks about my hair, personality, and everything in between. I took my mom’s advice and ignored it as much as possible because, “She is just jealous and insecure....
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