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Hall: Where oh where is my hair?

Long before presidential candidate Donald Trump became a victim of sparse hair, I knew the heartache of comb-overs. I suffered in the struggle for better head hair just as Trump has waged his own brave battle to save what thinning hair he has left. He and I watch our dwindling hairy fluff fade away as we mourn larger and larger patches of baldness showing through. But it wasn’t the loss of hair that I feared when young; it was the ridiculous remedy that awaited me. During my teen years, I noticed a weirdly bald national politician and swore that, if that ever happened to me, I would try to be saner. I speak of Robert Taft, an Ohio senator who lost the GOP presidential nomination in 1940, 1948 and in 1952. That was when I first noticed that Taft was a man with unsuccessful hair. And it was his fault. Taft was mostly bald and chose a comb-over anyway/ Bill Hall , Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: Have you lost the battle of the bald? Does it matter to you?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog