The Spectator, December 2nd, 2006
I went to see a friend the other day. At the door, she clutched at her Pre-Raphaelite, wheaten locks and cried, 'Don't come any closer, we've all had nits for months!' I embraced her anyway, and our blonde hair mingled. But she really shouldn't have worried her pretty nitty head about it.
Lice are everywhere. Nits R Us: they're the present that just keeps giving this Christmas. The old stigma that used to attach not just to lice but to admitting in print that you have them is, officially, a thing of the past.
Mary Killen, the Spectator's ingenious agony aunt, attributes her 'cleansing' from ...
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