On Sunday, November 18, 2018 at 8:29:36 PM UTC-10, Cheri wrote:
> "dsi1" <> wrote in message news:e442de6f-0889-44bd-b055-
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> The young girls here pretty much all wear their hair long. It requires a lot
> of time and effort to maintain it. My granddaughter likes to clutch her
> mom's hair when she goes to sleep so my daughter will let her hair down when
> she's tired. That's pretty primal.
>
> At some point, when they get older, the young girls over here will often cut
> their hair. The cutting of long hair has always been a symbolic rite of
> passage, or a break with an old life, or a rejection of certain values.
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> Or maybe they just get tired of all the caring for it and have better things
> to do.
>
> Cheri

You might be right about that. I cannot say.