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Benny Jerome started growing his blond hair out in 2005. He bet
on a horse that won its race and he decided as long as the horse
was winning, he wouldn’t cut his hair. It was quite a change for
the man who had spent most of his life with a crewcut. The winning
streak continued for three years, and just recently Jerome, of
Aromas, decided to cut his hair and donate it to Locks of Love.
Donate to Locks of Love
Benny Jerome started growing his blond hair out in 2005. He bet on a horse that won its race and he decided as long as the horse was winning, he wouldn’t cut his hair. It was quite a change for the man who had spent most of his life with a crewcut. The winning streak continued for three years, and just recently Jerome, of Aromas, decided to cut his hair and donate it to Locks of Love.
Locks of Love is a nonprofit organization that gives wigs to children with cancer or alopecia, a disease in which people lose all their hair. To donate, the hair needs to be eight to ten inches in length, healthy, undyed and without gray hair since it is being used by children.
Jerome’s own mother worked as a hairdresser before she died of cancer in 1994. He said he thought donating his hair would be a nice way to honor her memory. He planned to have his hair cut at Attitudes and Images yesterday, Feb. 5.
“I’ll probably just shave my head and start growing it out again,” he said a few days before the scheduled haircut.
To find out more about Locks of Love, visit www.locksoflove.org or call 561-833-7332.
