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		<description><![CDATA[In the process of going natural. The hair has locked at the point where the natural hair meets the permed hair. After four hands and using tons of Carol&#8217;s Daughter hair products the locked hair unlocked. The transitional process is tough &#8211; it&#8217;s not for the faint at heart. After the locks came out I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pivotalhairden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2997999&amp;post=8&amp;subd=pivotalhairden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kitchen Dread As a kid, Stacy dreaded the twice a month Saturday morning ritual that she shared with her mother. She usually shuffled her feet across the floor until she made it to the kitchen. She’d inch herself up the tall wooden barstool and plop her small frame atop the hard surface. The time for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pivotalhairden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2997999&amp;post=7&amp;subd=pivotalhairden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article, “Straightening our Hair,” Bell Hooks, states “Individual preferences cannot negate the reality that our collective obsession with straightening black hair reflects the psychology of oppression and the impact of racist colonization.” How do you feel about this interpretation?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pivotalhairden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2997999&amp;post=6&amp;subd=pivotalhairden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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