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Hair for sale

018BFBFC-323B-4B49-AEFD-7D667CDCB50ETake heed of unnatural-seeming hair.

When Robert Louis Stevenson died, his business-minded Scottish nanny quietly began selling hair which she claimed to have cut from the writer’s head forty years earlier. The believers, the seekers, the pursuers bought enough of it to stuff a sofa.

Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrott, A Novel.