GJames44 your beard is coming along nicely. You have a great color, and well-balanced natural lines. Give your wife some time to grow accustomed to your new look, she'll probably come around eventually. It looks like you and I have a similar growth pattern on the chin and it won't stop you from having a great beard if you stick to your goal. Keep it growing sir.

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Kind regards,

Greyfur

My journey

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. ~ Miguel de Cervantes
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. ~ Walt Whitman
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. ~ John Milton