Girl, 6, lets her hair down for Locks of Love
Published: May 25, 2005
Six-year-old Cassidy Rogers fulfilled her dream of being the fairy tale princess Rapunzel as she let down her beautiful hair, allowing nearly a foot of it to be lopped off Tuesday for a good cause.
The kindergartner, who attends Our Lady Queen of Peace School in Bethalto, donated her golden-brown locks to a nonprofit group known as Locks of Love. The organization collects hair to fashion into wigs for children who have lost their hair because of treatment for cancer or other long-term illnesses.
“Since she was really little, she’d always say she wanted to be Rapunzel when she grows up,” said Cassidy’s mother, Lisa Rogers. “She came home from school one day about two weeks ago and said, ‘OK, I’m ready to cut my hair off.’
“As a parent, I wanted to say, ‘No, Cassy, not your hair.’ But that’s not the message you want to send.
“We were afraid she’d cry, but she’s smiling.”
Lisa and Dan Rogers, the proud parents, stood close by as Cassidy’s hair, which had fallen below her waist, was snipped off and tied with ribbon into three locks. The young girl smiled as the hair was placed on the beauty station counter at Natural Looks Unlimited, 500 Sanders in Bethalto. Cassidy had heard about Locks of Love from a classmate.
Stylist Kelly Lively has been trimming Cassidy’s hair all of the girl’s life. This was her first real haircut.
“She’s never had more than a half-inch cut off her hair at a time,” Lively said. “It’s still past her shoulders, but I know that has to be a lot lighter.”
Lively has snipped several heads of hair for Locks of Love at the salon. Stylists there provide clients with paperwork that they fill out to make the contribution.
Cassidy ran her fingers through her hair, swayed her head easily from side to side and let her new, shorter coiffure fall to her shoulders.
Despite being teased by a classmate earlier Tuesday, Cassidy said she was glad she made the donation. She said a boy in her class told her “I won’t be pretty anymore without my hair.”
“I told her there’s some other little girl who’s going to be pretty now, because she’ll have hair,” Lisa Rogers said.
“They’re special, and they don’t have any hair,” Cassidy said about the young cancer patients.
Now that she has lived out her dream of being Rapunzel, Cassidy said she hopes to be a veterinarian when she grows up.
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