Babies are usually bald and as they grow, so does their hair. A person with long hair has been growing it out for a long time; you can tell how long by the length.
What if it worked in reverse?
What if you were born with a full head of hair and it grew inwards very slowly, and you could tell how long a person would live by the length of their hair?
"We don't care if it's a boy or girl, as long as it's got hair!" they'd joke.
If a baby were born with very long hair, everyone would congratulate the parents and pat them on the back, but if a baby was born with very short hair or none at all...
"Jim had a baby last week," one coworker would murmur to another by the water cooler, "Didn't have any hair."
"Oh, poor Jim," they'd say sympathetically. "I'll have my wife bring them over a casserole... that must be so hard."
"Give his wife my condelences," says the first co-worker.
"Of course. God, I can't even imagine. All my children had hair down to their knees."
Weird, I know, but I felt like this was a cool idea. Someone ought to make a flash animation or a short story about this. (Not it!)
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