Teen Donates Hair To Children with Hair Loss Problem
In a recent report, a Lookingglass teen donates her hair to make wigs for sick children.Here's an excerpt of the report:
Thirteen-year-old Megan Smith of Lookingglass sat cringing in a chair at West Side Salon Friday, waiting for the stylist to take scissors to her waist-length, honey-colored hair.
"I'll probably have to close my eyes," she said in anticipation.
Moments later, Sue Bailey, who owns the salon, began laboring through Smith's inch-wide ponytail.
"That is a lot of hair," said Smith's mother, Jane Smith, who looked on with a tinge of angst across her face.
Though Smith had been growing her hair out since the third grade, the soon-to-be eighth-grader at Winston Middle School knows her loss will be someone else's gain.
She's donating more than 10 inches of her hair to Locks of Love, a nonprofit organization that makes hair prosthetics for financially disadvantaged children with diseases that lead to long-term hair loss.
Smith has had high hopes for her hair since she started reading stories about children with cancer in the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books over the past couple years. The thought of children feeling out of place because of their hair loss saddened her.
"I wanted them just to feel normal like everyone else," she said.
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