HEN WE WERE TEENAGERS MY BROTHER AND I had repeated and protracted arguments about who was going to go bald first. This was prompted by the conspicuous slapheadedness of our dad, and the fact he’d felt an unwelcome chill on his scalp since his mid-20s. On this basis, and ignoring all that stuff about such things skipping a generation, my kid bro and I would bait each other with pointless, nonsensical reasons why it would be the other brother who would find his forehead growing like the
