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Maybe it’s a Southern thing, but my mother taught me to always fix the back of my hair. See, my mother’s first career was a Beautician during the ‘60s and ‘70s. During those decades women actually “did” their hair or had it done for them by a Beautician. Hairdos were a thing then and women were judged by the construction of their “do”. It always drove my mother crazy to see a perfectly coiffed front section and a rat’s nest
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You strike out on your own…finally you are calling your own shots and answering to no one… Freedom is yours. The first couple of weeks and months are intoxicating as you are able to pursue your passion as you never have before. Ah, this is the life of which you have dreamed! Then things start to get interesting – you find yourself building a website, designing marketing materials, sending out proposals and closing sales. Suddenly you’re setting up spreadsheets to
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