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In reply to the discussion: Forty-seven years ago today, the world changed--a revisit and a revision of a seven year old post: [View all]DFW
(54,387 posts)Like Yasir Arafat, I have extremely sensitive facial skin. If I shave, even with an electric razor, my skin turns bright red like a boiled lobster. Arafat chose to clip his beard short, and thus had his perpetual fuzzy look. That wasn't for me, so I let it grow out. My wife met me this way, she knows nothing different.
The high school I graduated from was mortified, but I wouldn't shave it off, even for graduation. It seemed they had some high military muck-a-mucks among the parents and the attending alumni, and they pressured me to do it. In revenge, when we were herded together for the class picture, my brother, who was a class below me at the rival school, was herded together with us. Instead of trying to climb over my classmates, so as not to be in our class picture, I convinced him to stay next to me for the picture. Word eventually got out, and the school was scandalized, but they cared so little about us in reality that they to this day couldn't point my brother out in the class picture.