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Column: There's no shame in growing older — so I'm done dyeing my gray hair

Something weird is happening at the drugstore, at church and on the "L." Women I don't know are telling me I'm brave.

"You look beautiful, but I don't have the courage," a lady said in the Walgreens' parking lot. "My hairdresser is my sister and she won't let me."

"I love your style, but I can't risk it," whispered a woman at a business conference.

My act of courage isn't much. It's not like I went under enemy fire

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