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sebrun:
This is my first post. I lurked around for several weeks, then signed on as a member on 26 January 12, and lurked some more before deciding write.

I want to say how much I appreciate this website and its  participants. I’ve wanted to be BBC for a long time.  I sat on the fence for years worrying about physical shortcomings and what others would think.

It wasn’t until I found this website and began to read through many of the forum’s threads that I began to see that many of those thinking about crossing over to the sly side have their own issues and challenges they need to face before they can accept themselves and try it sly.

Even after I’d been hanging around here for a while, I was still hesitant to become sly. My main concern is that, at 54, I’m a skinny guy with a skinny neck. I would look at the avatars of the sly members and think “I’ll never carry off the sly thing as well as these guys do, so why bother.  I thought that my still relatively thick brown hair at least helps to deemphasize my neck size, so why not just keep it and be done with it.

The problem was that I wasn’t happy with hair; been there, done that. And I was obsessing more and more about shaving it off. I don’t know how many times I lay awake at night thinking and planning to make time the next day to go down to my local barbershop and tell him to just cut it all off  to make the start on this chosen path, but I would always talk myself out of it the next day.

Finally, on 3 Feb. nervous and shaky, I manned up, walked into the shop and had the barber cut off the hair as close to my scalp as he could, went home, took a quick shower, and shaved my head—and I really like it.

I still have some feelings of self-consciousness about my neck. But I realize it’s the same with or without the hair. The difference is that now I’m sly the way I want to be and find I really am less concerned about what others think about it. I’m a week into the 30-day challenge. But don’t expect I’ll go back to the hair thing any time soon.

So thanks and keep up the good work you guys do in helping both BBN and BBC in overcoming challenges—whatever they may be—on the road to sly. 

Lastly, I’m having trouble uploading even an avatar picture or I’d post one. Thanks.

Sir Harry:
Welcome and happy shaving! Glad you found out what it's like to be free from hair!

LAGLE:
sirharry love your motto! and glad you've joined us sebrun!

Mikekoz13:
Welcome!! Nice intro!

Join right on in!!

Slyfive:
I think it looks great, great 'stache too!

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