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Time to shine

Teenage life is difficult enough.

Especially at school.

But for Farah, she had something even harder to cope with than popularity, hormones and exams.

Because she suffered alopecia – and by 15, she’d lost all of her beautiful brunette hair.

‘Alopecia is an autoimmune disease and it just means my immune system attacks the hair follicles, which causes hair loss,’ says Farah.

‘I started losing my hair when I was about 8 years old.

‘I think it was at the back, it was only

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