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When I returned to New Orleans after being in California for sixteen years, I was taken aback by Margaret Orr, our local meteorologist – she looked fabulous. Not to mention she had become a redhead, my own personal favorite shade. So yesterday, when I was in Saks getting my Kiehl’s moisturizer and I ran into her I said, “You know Margaret, I have to say you look stunning – I mean you are more beautiful than you were twenty years ago – how I don’t know, but you are.”

She focused instead on my bald head, and said her daughter was fighting cancer too – she was diagnosed in 2007 with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. It’s hard to believe you could be any more embarrassed than just being bald, but being bald and having to tell people you don’t have cancer all the time is in and of itself uncomfortable, especially when either they have come through cancer themselves or have a love one struggling with it. It almost seems trite trying to explain Hashimoto’s Disease and alopecia and stress.

In the meantime, I’m rooting for Margaret’s daughter.

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