Isaw a photo of an author I admire recently, and she had no hair. I worried she was ill, so I immediately investigated. She was not ill. She had cut off all her hair and had done it for good reasons, she said. She had done a lot of thinking about her hair – a lot more than I had.
First of all, she said, she was not blond.
“No one is blond,” she added, or almost no one.
Less than 1% of the population …