W Goodwin
5 min readFeb 27, 2020
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Hairy Guys

By W Goodwin

I still remember the evening my kid brother announced to the family, “Guess what! We’re mammals!”

He was 12 and looked it, but only a few months later his androgenic hormones began ripping the hinges off the doors of his metabolism. The spreading shadow of a beard started changing his boyish face. Every day we saw newly emergent hairs growing from his body. Chest. Arms. Axilla. Legs. Crotch (described, not…

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