The Day Before My Sister’s Wedding I Woke Up To Find My Hair Had Been Cut While I Slept

thought they were diminishing me. They had thought the absence of my hair was a subtraction from my presence, that a woman with a pixie cut in an ivory suit is somehow less than a woman with waist-length auburn hair in a dress chosen to make her look washed out.

They miscalculated, as people who do not actually see the people they are looking at tend continue reading …