In our war-torn, terrorist-ridden, disease-ridden, inequitable, cataclysmically climate-changing world, it’s hard to imagine a more superficial topic, literally and figuratively, than hair color. Believe me, after researching the topic for a year and interviewing hundreds of people across the country, I know this. But we are people, all of us, not saints. We worry about getting sick and whether we’ll have enough savings to take care of our parents and our children, let alone ourselves. And, in our various tiny ways, we try to contribute to solutions or salves for the big, profound problems – but we also care about how we look. And hair, and its color, as ridiculous as our obsession with it may be, is a very real, visible, emotionally central sign of what each of us is trying to be – a sort of personal flag. So please bear with me for one more column on the subject. The majority of the women I interviewed, as research for my book, were highly concerned with a loss of sexual attractiveness as they aged, and the color of their hair was central to their sense of attractiveness
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