Yet there was something about being a young, blonde-haired woman in a country of beautifully dark Latin American men, coveted by them for my American-ness and resented by their female partners for my desired status, that was simultaneously disorienting, frightening and seductive.

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Meanwhile, laid-back blonde surfer staffer Max Hodges and spiky-haired blonde staffer Dax Holt both get almost more screen time than Levin and dreadlocked producer Charles Latibeaudiere.

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Amanda, a shiny-haired blonde, wore black from head to toe, her wrists roped in silver bracelets.

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At a table covered with egg cartons, a frizzy-haired blonde in fingerless gloves rubbed her hands together and lit a cigarette.

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