10-year-old girl ponies up long tail
Published: May 21, 2005
It seemed a shame to waste a foot of her hair, so when 10-year-old Taylor Morris opted for a shorter hairstyle, she donated it to Locks of Love.
“I wanted to do it since people really need it,” the fourth-grader at The Runnels School said. “I thought I might as well do it since I don’t know what I’d do with it.”
Her mother, Debra Morris, searched the Internet and found Locks of Love, an organization providing hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children with long-term medical hair loss.
Hair at least 10 inches in length can be given to Locks of Love. The organization, based in Lake Worth, Fla., provides human-hair wigs to children.
The majority of donors are children, more than 80 percent, according to the organization’s Web site. Since it began in 1997, more than 1,000 American and Canadian children have been helped.
Most of the donated pieces go to children with alopecia areata, a disease that results in extensive hair loss and has no known cure.
Before it was put into a ponytail and cut, Taylor’s light brown hair reached almost to her waist.
Morris said she had resisted her daughter’s desire to cut it for at least a few years.
“Taylor had beautiful, thick, long hair,” Morris said. “I finally agreed to the haircut, and she thought we should give it to someone who could use it.”
Taylor said she’s enjoying styling her hair and using “cool stuff” in it now, such as butterfly clips with “cool colors.”
“I really needed it cut,” Taylor said. She swims daily during the summer and the shorter hair will be easier.
“I really love my hair now.”
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