This isn't a story about losing your hair gracefully.
Instead, it's about men like Chuck, a successful lawyer, who in his early twenties looked in the mirror and was mortified to see the hair on his temples thinning. He could do the math, especially after thumbing through the family photo album and using his father and uncles as gauges. If he was losing his hair this young, he figured, he'd probably be bald by his thirties, a time that should be the pinnacle of a man's earning power and social prowess.
The images in the mental gallery that followed weren't pretty, starting with the one of him wearing a toupee. "I realized a hairpiece would never work with my active lifestyle," he says. Transplant technology was improving, he read, but the idea of having his follicles rearranged in a $20,000 surgical shell game filled him with dread.
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