The eternal question. Or "Bart Kein Bart" in the original German. I'm growing mine for the whole James Russell Lowell schtick. Hey, I'm at the Atlantic now, home of the nineteenth-century-serious-fucking-beard cabal. Matt and Ross are catching up, but they really need to put in more effort:
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