I can’t lie about it anymore. Those aren’t blond hairs in my beard – they are definitely grey – or at the very least – white. I have fooled myself long enough and now I have to repair this problem before someone else discovers them. I steal the tweezers from my wife’s make-up case and start plucking. There are only 5 or 6 (maybe a dozen) hairs that stand out from my plush brown goatee. For each grey (white) hair I pull out, 5 brown hairs are removed accidentally with them. I leave a balding, bleeding patch in the tweezer’s wake. Perhaps if I shave off my beard I will be able to hide the damage those white hairs have done.