An eight-year-old Pennsylvania girl has inspired many and touched the hearts of her family after she shaved her head to support her three-year-old cousin who has been diagnosed with cancer.
Morgan Weyand decided last week that she wanted her head shaved after her cousin, Cooper, lost his hair after he was diagnosed with a rare type of lymphoma last month.
So last Monday, Morgan walked into a SmartStyle Hair Salon and had one of the stylists cut off her locks in honor of Cooper.
‘The lady shaved my head for me because I really wanted to support cancer for my little cousin,’ Morgan told WJAC-TV.
In a Facebook post on February 15, Morgan’s mom detailed how her daughter told her she wanted to shave her head for cancer and called her daughter’s decision brave.
‘I think it’s a brave thing what she wants to do and she’s only 8,’ Joanne Weyand Nicklow wrote.
‘I explained to her what cancer is and she understands. She said she wants to do it for her little cousin. I think it’s the sweetest thing. I’m proud of her.’
Cooper’s mom, 25-year-old Kayla Nicklow, added that Morgan came up with the idea on her own.
‘Her mother warned her, “You’ll go to school and sometimes people say things.” [Morgan] didn’t care,
‘She was doing this for her cousin fighting cancer and that’s all that mattered to her.’
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