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Paul Thomas Swann
Paul Thomas Swann

Jul 12

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The “R” Question

The Army Reserve, Haircuts, and could you please stop asking me that?

Photo by John-Mark Smith on Unsplash

I’m sitting in a barbershop in Northwest Arkansas probably 15 years ago when the obligatory barber conversation started:

Me: “Just give me a low fade, kinda like a national guard cut.”

Barber: “Oh, are you retired?”

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