[Magdalen] News

[Jay Weigel]

​My paternal grandfather was bald, my maternal grandfather had a pretty
good head of hair. My father was thin on top. One of my sons went bald
early, the other one hasn't. ​

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Male pattern-baldness does come from the mother IIRC.
> Lynn
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Aug 6, 2015, at 7:58 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 8/5/2015 11:05:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
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> I didn't  care what my hair looked like afterwards, at least it
> was  CLEAN!​>>>>>>
>
> I made a trip yesterday to a local unisex hair place to have my once
> every three months perm.  I have had the same hairdo for forty  years,
> and it is, by coincidence the same hairdo as my mother's was.  I  thus
> sort of look like my mother with a full beard.
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> In any case, though I ordinarily shampoo several times a week, the
> beautician really roughs up my scalp in the process of shampooing,
> and I love it.  There's something about someone else working on  the
> scalp that is pleasurable.
>
> In any case, I am the only one of the four male sibs in my family to
> have hair.  Every male on either side of the family is bald.  It  makes
> me wonder how I ended up with hair, admittedly thin at the top, but
> otherwise fairly substantial.  I've sometimes wondered a bit about  my
> parentage!  A DNA test a couple of years ago  put that thought to  rest.
> I am a Strang who just happens to have scalp hair.
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> David Strang.
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