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Height and Hair
I could grow a beard at 14, but stopped growing taller that year, too. My brothers all said the two were related, and I believed it without checking. They all tower over me at 5' 8". I didn't grow a beard, though, until my mid 20's. Beards were rebellious, and I wasn't brave enough for one until then. I still haven't figured out what makes a man a man. According to the women in my life (my wife and daughter), I'm still pretty much an adolescent. And an old fuddy-duddy. And that's not a contradiction, they tell me. So I've got a lot to learn.
Loved the cat story, too.
posted by
mousehop
on September 1, 2008 at 9:02 AM
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So that's the measure of a man...
a brushpile of chinwhiskers. And here I'd been thinking it was having a keen analytical mind and the ability to sidestep trouble. Maybe a sense of humor. Silly me. :)
posted by
Pat_B
on September 1, 2008 at 5:26 AM
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