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Giving More Than Thanks

I wasn't going to post again until after Thanksgiving, but a woman always has the prerogative to change her mind, so I did. ;) Two years ago, my daughter cut eleven inches off her hair and donated it in honor of a family member who was dying of cancer. This past summer, it had grown to below her shoulders again. I asked her if she'd like to get it cut, citing a shorter style would be cooler in our sweltering Houston climate. She declined, saying she wanted to grow it out and donate it again this November. Like mothers do, I nodded and agreed, figuring she'd forget or change her mind by fall. I was wrong. Last week, we went down to the local salon at daughter's insistence and had her well-past-shoulder-length hair cut to just below her chin. She mailed it off to Locks of Love , an organization that makes hairpieces for children with long-term hair loss from things like alopecia, brain stem radiation, and burns. Donating is easy ($$ or hair). You just go to...