"One minute I would be standing in the shower washing my hair and the next minute sitting in the tub sobbing uncontrollably, " she wrote in her book.

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Borawski had difficulty standing long enough in the shower to wash and condition her hair.

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Consider, for example, Greta Garbo's lovely, sad, saucer eyes, or a puzzling, dazzling photo of three women wearing stark white, flanking a white horse and standing in what looks like a white-tiled communal shower (actually Steichen's studio).

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