I forget exactly what triggered it, but at some point during this winter I didn't shave for a while, and cymrullewes looked at my sideburns and decided they reminded her of something. Shaving my chin to leave mutton-chops helped the resemblance along a lot.
So she basically told me I wasn't allowed to cut my hair short again until it had grown long enough for us to take this photo.

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