Article: Winning contest no close shave for 'Hairiest Man'

LOS ANGELES - This was to be Keith Young's last day as a circus sideshow, the final few emotionally wracked moments of an insult- laden life as a modern-day American werewolf.

He rose shyly from his chair inside his doctor's book-lined UCLA office. And then slowly, button by button, facing a hoard of reporters and TV cameramen, he undid his orange-colored dress shirt.

For one long uncomfortable moment, the freakish image shocked a usually thick-skinned bunch of newspeople into a stunned silence.

Young was covered with hair: a swirling carpet that covered his chest in dark ringlets, swept down his stomach, around to his back and shoulders.

For most of his 32 years, the suburban Chicago ...

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