The rebirth and use of the _merkin_

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:30 PM -0400 3/23/11, Wilson Gray wrote:
>A sample article is at
>
>http://goo.gl/fDqhn

which identifies the merkin first as a "special wig" and then
explains that it's "a public wig".  Obviously, she takes it off in
private.

LH

>A zillion other articles can be googled under
>
>merkin
>
>Evan Rachel Wood
>
>Mildred Pierce
>
>HBO
>
>etc.
>
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>-Wilson
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>All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
>to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>-Mark Twain
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