Hemingway Fights Male Pattern Baldness

Scott Stavrou
Aug 9, 2017 · 6 min read

or The Short Happy Life of Frances’ Comb: To Have and Have Not Hair

When Hair Retreats: The Best of Bad Hemingway

Frances’ comb was an old comb and he used it alone. He had not combed his hair for eighty-four days and the hunt for hair was getting harder all the time. When he had been younger, in the days before he got older, the hair had been as plentiful as the fish in the Gulf Stream.

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Scott Stavrou

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Author of Losing Venice, a novel (May, 2018) | American living in Europe | PEN Hemingway Award | Writer, Teacher | http://bit.ly/LosingVenice

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