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            JANNET WAKES. IT IS FRIDAY, AUGUST 1ST, AND SHE IS FULLY RESTED AFTER A LATE return to Portland last night. She unpacks, checks correspondence, and makes a few phone calls. Jannet deliberately marches, for a quite extended walk, from her dwellings to a favorite hair salon/barbershop just north of West Burnside and near her favorite grocery; she waits on an outside bench, after signing in, for the next available opening. This is a quality unisex salon/barbershop but there are no appointments, you simply show up and wait for the next available stylist although it is usually not too long. She commits to a very short boy-cut although her hair is allowed to remain much longer in the front; she now has an arched swath of hair overhanging part of the left side of her face. Jannet has elected for this radical cut, and the accompanying change in attire, about three or four times, in her past, within her lifetime. Continue reading →