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mid-life hair fear?

how and when did that happen?

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Jim Dalling
Jul 27, 2024
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The puddles were smaller this morning than yesterday afternoon. Onced fully covered trails now had slick little edges of drying mud. My tires chewed it up like a chubby toddler on a chocolate cake throwing this silty sensation straight up my back.

Splattering off the back of my helmet, I could feel little lumps land behind my collar. They’d slowly force their way between my shoulder blades eventually ending up as a little brown non poo lump in between my butt cheeks.

Have you ever traveled thirty kilometers on a bike with a lump of silt in between your butt cheeks? If you have, you know the joy. If you haven’t, I can guarantee that you want to try this. You must try this. Especially if you are a particularly hairy human.

It may have something to do with aging, but I find hair in the most surprising places these days. As a man in his fifties, I’m never surprised or shocked by hair on other people. People can be as ape like as they like. I fear my own hair.

It’s not like my hair actually sc…

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