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Frum Helen Back: Grandson Drew, now 11, sat down next to me and told me that he is sure
he needs to start shaving. By George, I could see a bit of fuzz above
his upper lip. “You’re becoming 
a man!” I told him. Then he asked me if
I would take him shopping for some men’s deodorant and men’s shampoo.
“Of course I will!” I said. He then told me that he got a small
container of Old Spice deodorant at school but he knows he’ll go
through it really fast. Then it dawned on me what this was all about.
“You watched your sex movie at school today, didn’t you?” I asked. He
reminded me that he saw the movie about boys and puberty this year.
Next years he sees the movie about girls and then in seventh grade it’s
about sex. So tonight, after Hil’s game, we’ll be going to WalMart to
buy some men stuff, including an electric razor.
Question: When did you start shaving?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Escapee on May 09 at 2:43 p.m.
I have never shaved with a blade in my life. It’s been Norelco all the way. I began scraping barnacles off my face at about age 16, somewhere in there.
EagleKeeper44 on May 09 at 7:56 p.m.
OK, geek squad. What gives here? Comments says
8 but only one shows up? Are we “Shaving” comments
here now? ROTFLMFAO