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Let’s not split hairs over life with a beard | Letters

Readers respond to an article by Polly Hudson in which she argues that all men look better with facial hairPolly Hudson’s article (Beards may be dirtier than toilets – but all men should grow one, 3 July) is correct on the whole, except in the assumption that all men can do so. When I was a child, my dad spent a two-week holiday not shaving and ended up with a five o’clock shadow. By coincidence, my uncle grew a bushy forest on his face during the same period. Faced with my uncle’s success, my dad promptly shaved his own attempt off and it was never spoken of again.Years later, I was bewildered by my dad’s really quite hostile reaction when I successfully gave facial hair a go for the first time. Then I remembered.David GrayBirmingham Continue reading...

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