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Ladies, please spare us the pain of your troubled lives

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There is one social faux pas that a number of Nairobians just can’t quite get a hang of: revealing weird or intimate details to strangers. Some of us do not even realise that we do it every single day through social media. It happens in real life too.

I recently changed hairdressers and as with my last one, at the end of the session, I knew her entire life story. I do not know what it is with hairdressers and their penchant for sharing details of their personal lives.

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