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Walsh s Wonderings - From going bald to bald April 26, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail It had been too long. Not the hair, of course. The hair had not been “long” for eight years (here’s a link to my 2013 column on my 19-month journey to donate my hair). No, it was the slow, painful erosion of my hairline from a forehead to a “six head” that led me to shave it all as clean as an eight-ball. The monk look, with it’s classic “horseshoe around the back,” simply didn’t track for me. Shaving one’s head seems to be the “in” thing to do nowadays and I’m happy to ride that wave into my dotage. I can go for a jog and not look like a dog left out in the rain; instead I look like a cardiac patient trotting away from a house fire, like God intended. I no longer have to scramble for hats on a bad hair day when I forgot to shower (also, fewer showers). The cost of letting one’s hair grow wild and free is the upkeep involving shampoos, brushes and even h ....