LIVING WITH ALOPECIA

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: February 18, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

Debra De LaMotte of Roxbury is a stunning woman who has a stylish way of dressing and wearing hats and scarves, and a classic face on which she knows how to apply makeup skillfully. She has a job and a boyfriend, and she wouldn't have any complaints about her life if it weren't for one small thing.

De LaMotte has no hair. Not on her scalp, arms, eyelids or legs. She's one of the estimated two million Americans of both sexes and all ages who have the autoimmune disease called alopecia. In her case it is alopecia universalis, meaning all the hair on the entire body, not just the scalp, has ...

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