Comment: "I Have To Do the Right Thing"

When Saint Mary's High School held its "Locks of Love" event Wednesday, in which donors give their hair for cancer patients who've lost their own, the youngest contributor was a third-grader from Harding Elementary School, 8-year-old Evelin Aguirre. The Feb. 17 article about the event, "," singled out the "little miss" from Harding and drew our Comment of the Week from Clare McCormick, who reported why Evelin did not heed the urging of her friends not to cut her hair:

Little Miss Evelin Cruz Aguirre told me "I have to do the right thing. And, my girlfriends told me 'don't cut your hair.' And I said, It's my hair and it will grow back but there are kids who need it." How about that for a third grader? We are proud of you, Evelin. *Ms. McCormick from SMCHS

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