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This is the way I heard it.

In the summer of 99, Sarah Bredlove walked into her modest bathroom,

looked into her modest mirror, and wondered just how much worse things could get.

Several inches above her hairline, two patches of scalp,

the size of silver dollars were shining like headlights in the morning mist.

After years of denial there was no longer any sense in pretending.

She was going bald.

Losing her hair at 32 was a blow but Sarah was no stranger to adversity.

She was an orphan at seven, a bride at 14, a mother at 17, and a widow at 20.

In the summer of 89, 10 years prior, she earned her five-year-old daughter,

Leff Vicksburg, and moved to St. Louis looking for a new life.

There she found work as a housekeeper, but Sarah longed for something more.

For a while there she thought it might be the handsome man with a million-dollar smile

and cool confidence who became her second husband.

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