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Why do i sometimes get a single long hair in random places? on my arm for example, there was a hair about 3x the length of the others. strange.

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Dr. Stevan Cordas answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Long hair: As one gets older it is not uncommon to find wild hairs at times.

Answered 3/21/2013

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