Outgrowing Your Hair?

I love the way my cousin's young daughter described her father's balding friend.
She struggled to remember his name and finally decided to take a less direct means of identifying him.

"You know, she said, "the one whose head is taller than his hair."

I'm going to remember that if I ever want to comfort someone who bemoans his baldness, "Just think of it as your head having outgrown your hair."

Then again, maybe that wouldn't be so very comforting.

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