To beard or not to beard

One of John Peel's most familiar stories was of when he shaved his beard and the face staring back at him was a "cross between my mother and Mussolini".

Seriously I know what its like to have a car crash, have reconstructive surgery and wake up to look at a face you don't recognise

Actually I have no idea whatsoever what that's like, but it just doesn't look like my face

as for the girl, she simply never replied. I did call her and no answer so number has been deleted. Only knew her five minutes and fell pretty hard. Still lessons learnt and all that