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In early February, Vogue‘s Maya Singer wrote a profile of California governor Gavin Newsom that described the governor as “embarrassingly handsome, his hair seasoned with silver, at ease with his own eminence as he delivers his final State of the State address.”

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Then in mid-February, The New Yorker‘s Nathan Heller wrote a long profile of Newsom, with observations like this:

For Newsom, a middle-aged man with a large, young family, a glow of professional attainment, and, most days, enough Oribe Crème in his hair to dress a good Crab Louie, the challenge has been to look both humble and concerned. He slumped his shoulders as he listened, as if to shrink his frame. When he nodded, he bent from the waist — not just agreeing but offering small, grateful bows. …He was dressed in a white shirt, dusky-blue suit trousers, and a blue tie knotted, with two crisp dimples, into a four-in-hand. The social-media menswear guru........

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