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" Back in February, I told you all about an is-this-really-happening-to-me incident (one of many!) that left me feeling a.) huge and b.) hopeless about my body. See, on my way to the hair salon, the boyfriend of a good friend of mine had urged me not to cut my hair; short hair, he informed me, would just make me look bigger. At that moment, it became so obvious to me that even people in the world who weren&amp;#x27;t strangers, people who knew me well, saw my size first and me second. Margarita the friend, Margarita the daughter, Margarita the editor all seemed like secondary descriptions to Margarita the cow. Or at least that&amp;#x27;s how I felt back then. The reality was, once I started to see myself differently--once I started to believe--and not just say--that I am bigger than my size and that I&amp;#x27;m more than my weight--the pounds started to melt away. It&amp;#x27;s still so easy to slip back into my old beliefs and sure, there are some days when I just cannot see past the span of my hips. But now I make every effort to stop the currents of self-loathing before I&amp;#x27;m drowning in them. Anyway, I&amp;#x27;d attempted a couple of months ago to go for the short haircut I&amp;#x27;d wanted the day my friend&amp;#x27;s boyfriend chopped off my self esteem instead, but I chickened out. This weekend, though, I visited my friend Emir, a hair master, and took the plunge. Here&amp;#x27;s my new hair, and here&amp;#x27;s to making up for lost time! I have no regrets and I do like the cut, but I&amp;#x27;m up in the air about what&amp;#x27;s a better look for me: long or short. What do you think? (It&amp;#x27;ll grow, so I promise to take no offense! :-&amp;gt; )"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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