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From: spaf@gatech.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: having a bald
Message-ID: <365@gatech.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Aug-83 17:22:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: gatech.365
Posted: Fri Aug 12 17:22:55 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Aug-83 19:24:52 EDT
Organization: Georgia Tech, School of ICS
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Well, at 27 I am showing very definite signs of male pattern
baldness, not to mention showing scalp.  I've been sort
of resigned to this happening ever since I was a little kid --
my dad and many male relatives all had lost their hair in
their 30s.  It's kind of ironic...I have curly hair and as a
little kid I hated it because I was teased so about it.
Now that I'm older and grown to actually like it, it's
disappearing.

I'm not broken up over it all.  I have too much else to offer
a woman who is perceptive enough to notice so I don't bemoan my
falling hairs.  Believe in your quality and attractiveness as
a person and it will shine through.  Don't apologize for it
or try to hide it.  Be yourself and believe that is sufficient.
If it is hard to explain to a guy that hair doesn't mean much,
have him check out the first Star Trek motion picture.
Persis Khambatta (sp?) went without hair in the whole picture,
but was absolutely beautiful because she acted as if that
was a perfectly normal way to be (exposure of those nice legs
didn't hurt either).

You are what you believe you are, and if you believe you are
unattractive you will be less attractive than if you think
positively.  Really.

Some random points:
Keep your hair short.  It looks better.  Growing it long and trying
to comb it over the bald spots just looks silly.

Grow a beard, but keep it neat.  (How many women out there
like a soft, well-groomed beard on a male?  Like how (and
where) it tickles?)

Reflect on the fact that you could have saved your hair if
you had been castrated at a young age.  Aren't hormones
wonderful?  Actually, this is just fate's way of catching
up with you -- as a kid of 13 or so you would have given
anything to get balled.  Aren't puns wonderful?

-- 
The soapbox of Gene Spafford
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