Little girl donates her beautiful red hair to Locks of Love
Published: August 13, 2005
Christa Davis said strangers were always offering compliments about her daughter’s thick, red hair. They stopped her everywhere — in the bank, Wal-Mart, the grocery store.
She said she couldn’t go anywhere without someone stopping her.
But now there is a lot less of Taylor Kirkland’s pretty red hair to admire. The 9-year-old sacrificed a little more than 10 inches to Locks of Love, a non-profit organization that provides wigs to children who have lost their hair due to medical conditions or treatments.
It has been almost two years since Taylor last had her hair cut. Her pretty red locks had grown down past the center of her back.
She didn’t at all mind cutting it, though.
“I don’t care how much they cut off,” she said. “Mine will grow back; a wig won’t.”
At The Cutting Edge in Sylacauga Thursday, Davis, her husband, Chris, and son, Trent, watched as stylist Tina Cleveland cut Taylor’s hair. After just a few snips and a lot of patience on Taylor’s part, the deed was done.
Taylor, a fourth-grader at A.H. Watwood Elementary in Childersburg, has been planning to do this for more than a year. She said her mother had told her about Locks for Love and a friend at school had donated her hair to the organization.
Davis said she had asked her daughter several times if this was what she really wanted to do. The answer was always yes.
“I said ‘Taylor, you know your hair is going to be real short,’ and she said ‘Mother, those kids with cancer don’t have any hair,’” Davis said.
There will be a few advantages to the shorter do —less to wash, cooler in the summer — but that had nothing to do with Taylor’s decision.
She just wanted to help someone less fortunate than herself.
She also said this could become a fairly regular event.
“If it gets long enough, I’ll probably do it again,” she said.
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