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Your scalp's retreating border, negotiating its surrender one inch at a time.
means The edge where your hair stops growing and your forehead begins — also used for any crack or fracture so fine it looks like a strand of hair.
from A straightforward compound of 'hair' and 'line,' first used literally for the outline of hair on the head, then borrowed by the 19th century for anything thread-thin — most notably a 'hairline fracture,' a crack so fine it resembles a single strand.
- m-shape
- recession often starts at temples, not crown
- genetics
- blame mother's father, not father's side
- timeline
- can start receding in your twenties quietly
- myth
- hats and gel do not cause baldness