Hair today, gone tomorrow
Published: July 23, 2005
With one quick snip, Miranda Sanchez shed 12 inches of her long, braided black hair Friday. But she didn’t shed a single tear.
Yvonne Avila, her aunt, had carefully braided her 5-year-old niece’s waist-length hair, then cut it off just as Miranda had requested.
“It seemed like a good idea to help out little girls who are sick,’ said Miranda, who learned through a friend on her softball team about Locks of Love, a nonprofit agency that creates wigs from donated hair for children who have lost their own due to illnesses.
“Besides,’ Miranda added, “it’s hard to comb out when it’s tangled and it gets too hot on my head in the summer.’
Though she is a professional hairstylist, Avila at first had misgivings about chopping her niece’s long locks. But she came around after she learned it was for a good cause.
“She has been growing her hair from birth and it’s so beautiful. But if it helps the ill children, it’s worth it,’ she said.
Stephanie Gill, a case manager for Locks of Love in Florida, said lots of kids like Miranda donate their hair to her organization.
“It’s such an important thing to do because it changes the lives of these children who have lost their hair,’ she said.
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A Feather in My Wig: Ovarian Cancer Cured, Seventeen Years and Going Strong!Locks of Love accepts ponytails or braids that are a minimum of 10 inches long. The hair needs to be clean. It can be colored or permed, but the group does not accept bleached or chemically damaged hair, Gill said.
More information about Locks of Love can be found at the group’s Web site: locksoflove.org.
“Maybe when my hair grows back when I’m about 8, I will send it to Locks of Love again, ‘ Miranda said.
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