First time in your thread but looks like I wandered in at just the right time.

First compliment goes to your GSD!!

Beard is filling in nicely as well, and let me be first to wish you luck in the neckline. It's going to get annoying, and it will be uneven, and it might look messy, and yadda yadda... but I simply have zero regrets after finally abandoning for good. My thread would be one good place to watch neck progress, how I gradually lowered before officially stopping maintaining, but it was actually another user here (BernardDogs) that inspired me to let it go and not look back. He grew what may be one of the best beards here, in my opinion, but never started a neckline and also has a lower line like you and I do. But he is proof that in time the lower neck growth really supports and embraces the longer beard. Keep it up1
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