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A close-up oil painting of a young woman with dark hair and a pensive expression, wearing an intricate white lace collar. She holds a pair of scissors to a lock of her hair, suggesting a moment of mourning or sacrifice.

Forget flowers: lovers in 18th- and 19th-century Ireland exchanged hair

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