I recently found out some info about Locks of Love.
Almost none of the hair actually goes to wigs. Most of it is sold and the money is kept by the company. The hair that is used for wigs is primarily given to burn victims and sufferers of alopecia.
I didn’t know this when I donated my hair as do most people who donate to Locks of Love.
More info:
http://www.give.org/reports/care2_dyn.asp?733
Amanda's Life List
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1. write a book and have it published
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2. become fluent in french
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3. move to europe
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4. travel to Finland
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5. get all the tattoos i want
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6. raise a cultured and well behaved child someday
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7. get out of the suburbs
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8. stop biting my nails
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9. meet more people
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10. see a ballet in New York City
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11. be a professional photographer
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12. take a cruise to Alaska
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13. live instead of exist
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14. own a hybrid car
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15. learn to play moonlight sonata
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16. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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17. find true love
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18. learn to shoot a gun
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19. save a life
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20. keep my sense of wonder
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21. see the world
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22. be happy
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23. study abroad
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24. write more letters
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25. remove the extraneous "like" from my speech...
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26. be independently wealthy
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27. work in a bookstore
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28. wander
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29. never sell out
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30. not be a greedy capitalist
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31. Become obscenely wealthy while subverting the dominant capitalist paradigm
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32. live simply
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33. make a smaller ecological footprint
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34. try absinthe
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35. find someone who'll adore me
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36. ask why so many people want to 'have', 'get' and 'buy' instead of 'be', 'do', 'learn' and 'know', and perhaps make a few people stop and think about it
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Recent entries
Some info for people considering donating:
2 years ago
FUCKING AMAZING.
2 years ago
Saw them at Bamboozle, going to the two NYC shows on June 22nd&23rd.
So amazing live, as expected.
Love those boys<3
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2 years ago
Everyone has their bad days and their good days.
But for the most part, I accept myself and love myself the way I am. Seeing people obsess over the way they look makes me sad sometimes, espcially because many of my friends are like that. I suppose it’s normal for teenage girls, but I wish they would just see that they are beautiful the way they are.
