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“I COULDN’T EXPRESS MY LIKING FOR A BOY OUT LOUD. DURING SCHOOL DANCES ALLGIRLS GOTASKED OUT BARRING ME.ATTHAT POINT, I FELT I WOULD NEVER HAVE A DATE IN MY LIFE.”
Ten-year-old Paromita Gupta was blissfully enjoying her winter break in Darjeeling, where she lived, when tragedy struck. On a certain morning, she woke up to find her pillow covered in hair. In the coming days, clumps of hair clogged the shower drain, and she lost strands as she combed. Such was the intensity that within one week, Gupta was
