“So, I haven’t done anything yet, but I think that when I go home after chemo this weekend, I am going to shave my head. I don’t know yet exactly how, though, because I know that if my mom helps, she will start to cry (and make me start to cry). As I do not have any sisters and really don’t know what my brothers would say, I think that I am going to ask my brother’s fiancee to help me. She is the closest thing I have to a sister, and I think she is the kind of person to handle it well. My mom and brothers have asked me why I want to shave it, and I can’t give a concrete answer other than the fact that it seems right, as if it’s the next step and something I need to do, regardless of how scary it seems.” Annie, a 18 year old college freshman with lymphoma.
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