My 12-year-old daughter cut her hair off to support a girl fighting cancer—then the principal called and said, “You need to come right now and see this with your own eyes.”

kitchen scissors in one hand and a ribbon-tied bundle of hair in the other. Her hair was cut unevenly to her shoulders, jagged and rough, her chin trembling.

I looked at the floor, then at her. “Letty… what did you do?”

She lifted her shoulders as though bracing for impact. “Don’t be mad.”

“I’m trying really hard to start somewhere before mad.”

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