Originally Posted by
MinnMan
I don't think I look old in the mirror - I look pretty young for my age. About to turn 65 and I still have nearly all my hair and it's only maybe 10 or 15% gray. Even my beard is less than half gray. I know from experience that people who don't know me think I'm in my early 50s or so.
My standard joke is that I'm aging from the inside - all the things wrong with me that come with age - I hate them - but they don't show on the outside. ...
I started "crowning" as I hit 40, and I have lost most of my top-of-head hair. My elder son went bald in his late 20s, about the same as both of his grandfathers, but his younger brother still has a good head of hair at 37 (but then, so did I).
Re: your "aging on the inside" comment, my paternal grandmother loved to tell about sitting with my cousins at the dinner table, and when the subject of all of the bald heads in the family tree came up, my middle cousin (and fellow cycling enthusiast) said of his little brother, "The problem with Jim is that his head is bald on the INSIDE."
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
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