{"id":436,"date":"2010-04-15T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com.s96953.gridserver.com\/site\/?p=436"},"modified":"2010-04-15T04:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T04:19:00","slug":"the-case-of-the-hairy-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/social\/the-case-of-the-hairy-legs.html","title":{"rendered":"The Case Of The Hairy Legs"},"content":{"rendered":"
I must have been about 13 or 14 when I first witnessed my friend, Isabella shaving her legs with a shaving stick. Prior to that, I don’t think I knew that people even do stuff like that. I was a late bloomer in every sense of the word. After the first time I witnessed Isabella doing it, I witnessed her doing it a few more times. I distinctly remember she got cut by the blade at least once. Being of mixed race and very light, the spot and trickle of blood seemed to be the only thing I could notice on her leg. But when I curiously rubbed her legs, I did admire its smoothness and freshness.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

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But it would take me several years before I came to own a pair of hairless legs myself. It happened in America. And I, too, started with a shaving stick. But the day I cut the skin on my Achilles heel, that was the day I put an end to the hairless legs routine — until I discovered the wonder of Nair Hair Remover<\/i>. I have since moved on to Veet Hair Remover<\/i>. Needless to say, I don’t understand why people use blades when hair removers are 100% painless.<\/span><\/div>\n

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On that note, my mother and grandma, naturally, were not happy when they found out about my hairless-legs sacrilege. Men, according to my grandma, just love<\/i> women with hairy legs. She pointed to my aunt’s very yellow legs, filled with dense strands of long, black hair, saying they were beautiful, that men admired them, and that I should try to be more like her. It feels just lovely, I suppose, smoothing one’s arms over a pair of legs that feel like dry grass straws. But since I am not a man, I cannot personally confirm or deny grandma’s theory. <\/span><\/div>\n

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