Brian Lerer on WNYC, and we're going to end today's show with a few of your calls on what?

On deciding to go gray.

Now, people's hair turning gray isn't really a decision we make since it's a natural part of the aging process, right?

Usually we'll notice a singular gray hair sprout somewhere, maybe in your 20s, your 30s, your 40s, but then suddenly your roots are no longer black, brown, or whatever, It's at that moment when people are faced with a choice.

Do you begin the cycle of dyeing your hair?

Kind of trying to shirk off or at least put off the appearance of the aging process?

Or do you let it go gray?

And listeners, the question is, when did you decide to go gray?

Was it a conscious decision you made?

Did you dye your roots previously?

And then ultimately, you just gave it up.

If so, what was the turning point for you?

What made you decide to let yourself go gray as far as you appear to the

outside world? 212-433 WNYC, 212-433-9692. Why do I ask? Well, there was an essay in the Wall Street

Journal's about face column titled, Why I Stop Dying My Hair.

And in it, novelist and biographer, Roxanna Robinson, recalls finding those first few white hairs at age 35,

and feeling like the aging process came for her too soon.

And in a particularly potent line, she wrote,

dyeing my hair was kind of lying about my age, but turning white at 35 was also kind of lying

about my age. Listeners, anyone have an experience like that? If you started to go gray

earlier than you thought you should or

earlier than most people do possibly giving others a false impression about your age. 212-433

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