One of Max's service projects

One of Max's service projects is donating his hair to Locks Of Love http://www.locksoflove.org/ this non-profit group collects hair 10 inches long or longer and makes wigs for children suffering from long-term medical hair loss. Max has been growing his hair out longer than any of us can remember. I've even cut it at least once a year for the past 4 years just to get rid of 3-5 inches of truly fried beach bleached hair. We can't imagine what he'll look like without long hair, but years ago he said he was going to donate his hair because;

"People think I'm a girl because I have long hair and that used to upset me, but I think it's harder for a girl to NOT have hair. If a girl can live without hair I can live with the teasing until my hair is long enough to donate"

Now if that doesn't make you just about qvell, nothing will! His hair has been long enough for quite a while, but he also wanted to make this coincide with his Bar Mitzvah. He thinks he's going to get it cut off a week before the event. We've told him he doesn't have to cut it if he doesn't want to at the last minute. He can always make a financial contribution instead. We just found Fantastic Sam's has some colored bracelets and we'll be including them for the guests. We had briefly thought of having T-shirts "Max gave 12 inches at his bar mitzvah", but that didn't come out like we'd hoped so we scrapped it.