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Pennie R. S. Nelson's avatar

Your beauty will shine through with or without hair.

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3musesmerge's avatar

Thank you Pennie!

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Jack Herlocker's avatar

T-shirt: "Sometimes understanding what a woman wants is difficult for a man. It’s like trying to figure out what color the number seven smells like." 😁

You are ALWAYS beautiful-crazy, Gail! The proportions just slosh back and forth, is all! 🤪

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3musesmerge's avatar

Love “proportions just slosh back and forth”!!! Best laugh all day!

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Kathy Karn's avatar

You are beautiful inside and out, hair or no hair Gail!

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3musesmerge's avatar

🤗 Big hug. Thank you! I have my scarves and bandannas washed and ready for action.

I am pretty sure the navy one was my mothers!

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Billie Short's avatar

Thank you for sharing honestly. Being sick and looking sick are two different things all together. I agree. Be gentle with yourself my friend.

On a lighter note:

On Monday, there was all this family back and forth drama between 3 Short Family households in 3 different states over a delayed flight. It was quite ridiculous in my opinion (and my opinion counts). I said, "This is whole lotta for naught!". I cannot believe I just read naught in your post. I have not heard that word in years.

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3musesmerge's avatar

Having it shaved tomorrow. Maybe I’ll treat myself to some new rouge and lipstick after.

Love that we are using same/similar vocabulary words. How cool is that? I looked up naught to make sure I was spelling it correctly.

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Billie Short's avatar

I looked it up to make sure I used it correctly with the family 🤣

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Karen DeBonis's avatar

Yuck. I, too, had hoped it would be different for you, Gail. 1) Thank you for sharing this journey with us. We are all here for you. 2) If you decide to go for a different look, I say be bold! Wild scarves. Bold earrings. Purple lipstick? Show this cancer you will not be intimidated!

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3musesmerge's avatar

Haha! Let us see where the muses take me! I could let them take turns playing dress up. 😂

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Pennie R. S. Nelson's avatar

I don't have cancer but after I was sick with Covid... Whether related or not I lost a lot of hair. It stopped coming out in handfuls but it's still very thin. It was saddening but I'm at a point in my life that I don't care what people think.

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3musesmerge's avatar

Thank you for sharing Pennie. ♥️ I’m glad to hear you can accept with ease. That is inspiring.

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Margaret O'Brien's avatar

It’s a tough one you’re facing - but you’ll be beautiful, regardless. 🥰

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Margaret O'Brien's avatar

Thank you for sharing with us Gail - we’re here, all the time. 💚🤗 🎵 xx

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3musesmerge's avatar

Thank you Margaret… I’m aware and so grateful. It’s only hair… and I haven’t been wrapped up in my appearance for many years. That said… having my hair fall out just feels wrong somehow.

Tomorrow my stylist is going to shave it off for me. Then I can move forward into acceptance.

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Gary Spangler's avatar

A brilliant approach! Get the hair out of the way and focus on your heart’s desires.

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Sharon Marie Buckler's avatar

I loved the picture! You’re in my thoughts and prayers! You’ll still be beautiful! Xoxo

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3musesmerge's avatar

♥️ Thank you Sharon!

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Bobby Kountz's avatar

What a SONG! “Beautiful Crazy!” Thinking about the hat picture I sent you… What a hat!

Whatever you wear, YOU and the Girls will Rock It! 💇‍♀️👒🧢👑🎩🪖👸🏼👩‍🎤

You are my Shero! 🙌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙌🏼

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Gary Spangler's avatar

CURE!! And certainly the chance to try on variations of Beautiful Crazy! I’m with Cal. Fun with lipstick colors (one shade for the upper lip; one the lower) and all manner of earrings. If eyebrows thin out, too, I can see the super wide & super dark ones, resembling wooly bear caterpillars, that so many other influencers favor. 🤔

I liked Luke Combs song, but had to wonder if you were goofing on us finding an artist whose surname is COMBS? Just one of the beautiful parts I’ll look forward to.

👩‍🦱 Now that’s a wig! 🧑🏼 And that’s the wig equivalent of the grey hat at WalMart. 👎. Just the right earrings and a wry smile. We’ll keep cheering you on!

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Marijke van Veldhoven's avatar

Thank you for sharing that. It sucks. And you’ll keep on being Gail. With all your muses.

The drawing was excellent: beautiful thought with the flower.

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