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Gurr didn’t recognize the company patriarch — “an older guy, unshaven, kinda ratty looking” — when he put his leg up on one of the tires of the mini-car.

Now that his tenure is over, he said he looks forward to returning to California and being able to be unshaven and wear jeans when he sees his family.

To go unshaven in the midst of personal hardship is so ubiquitous in popular media, and perhaps real life, that TV Tropes has a page dedicated to the “Beard of Sorrow.”

A photograph released Friday of Mr. Lee in his hospital bed showed him looking unshaven and uncharacteristically weak, but everyone buys it.

He and Herold could not bathe or wash clothes and, unshaven, they looked and smelled worse each day.