Jeremy was 16 when the hair began.

It started on my cheeks and then my jaw line and then eventually it just it started on my neck and then

beneath my jaw so pretty much my entire neck was just like hair and then over time it just got

thicker and thicker and longer and more coarse and I just didn't really know what to do and so I just didn't do anything about it and

so I would just walk around with hair on my face.

And then when I started shaving it, the shaving just didn't really help.

It just made it worse.

I was so self-conscious about it to the point where I wore nothing but

turtle necks.

Turtle necks and scarves.

It would be 110 degrees and you will still see me in a turtleneck or a scarf.

At that age, sort of becoming a woman,

and it felt like I was not becoming a woman,

it felt like I was becoming something other than. Becoming a woman comes with one instruction.

Be beautiful.

So in adolescence, girls carry purses before they have anything to put in them,

and they wear bras before they have breasts.

We believe that if we do these things... and they wear bras before they have breasts.

We believe that if we do these things, we will be desired,

and then we will become sexual beings.

But if you feel yourself becoming other than, as Jeremy did, how can you find your sexuality?

Where will you get your power? This is a dark story, but it's in the darkness that she finds her answer. I'm Allison Barringer and this is

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