Tristan Miller, a sixth-grade student at Iola Middle School, gave a very special present to someone she doesn’t know.
On Friday, Tristan, 11, donated two 10-inch locks of hair to Locks of Love.
Susan Cleaver, a stylist at Town Square Tannery & Salon, snipped the two lengths and then held them up, for Tristan and her mother, Brenda Miller, to admire.
Town Square has donations from about 30 patrons stowed and ready to send to the organization.
“Two years ago we sent in 75 to 80,” Cleaver said. “It’s awesome that Tristan and others are willing to help out.”
Brenda Miller said her daughter had her hair trimmed periodically, but this dramatic cut would cause her to take many a second glance in the mirror before she became accustomed to it.
Locks of Love, according to its website, is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 21 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis.
The organization meets a unique need for children by using donated hair to create quality hair pieces. Most of the children helped by Locks of Love have lost their hair due to a medical condition called alopecia areata, which has no known cause or cure.
It’s a win-win: Dramatic cut gives to cause
