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Veteran journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall riffs on life as she knows it.

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My Brand-New White Hair. It’s Real. It’s Scary. But I Kinda Like It

White hair author Barbara Falconer Newhall has stopped coloring and dying her hair so that the white hair now shows. Photo by Barbara Newhall

My white hair grew out when I was too sick with mono to keep it colored. To my surprise, I think I look smashing in my new look. Read more.

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