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By Corinne Fitzherbert

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Grinning widely, Keisha Page proudly held a blonde pigtail in each hand and beamed for the camera before swinging back towards the mirror and admiring her short new hairdo.

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For the second time in her seven years, the little girl donated her long blonde hair to Locks of Love.

"I wanted to give it to the little ones…the little ones who don't have any hair," the petite youngster explained of the program that uses real hair to make wigs for those who don't have hair due to illness or cancer treatments.

Keisha has been living in Alberta for more than a year but returned home to spend the summer with her grandmother Dinah Page. Keisha made her first hair donation when she was just four-years-old when her mom also had her long hair clipped and sent to Locks of Love.

"We just think it's a really nice way to help other people," Dinah Page commented as Cindy Levesque of Cindy's Family Hair Care in New Denmark carefully snipped off Keisha's long blonde locks.

Dinah noted Keisha is blessed with fast-growing hair as the little girl had already had her hair trimmed before making her second Locks of Love donation.

"If it hadn't been cut, it would have probably been all the way down her back," Dinah Page said.

Levesque noted she will clip one of her business cards to the pigtails just in case more information about the hair is required and then it will be delivered to Fredericton. The hair will then be sent to Halifax where it will be used to make wigs that Levesque said are used predominantly by people in the Maritimes. For hair to be donated to Locks of Love, it must be in ponytails or pigtails that are at least six inches long and it has to be hair that hasn't been dyed or coloured.

As everyone at the salon admired the little girl's new look, her grandmother noted the haircut will be a nice surprise for Keisha's mom when the youngster returns to Alberta. Levesque noted she felt honoured to be collecting Keisha's hair for the donation, especially since she now lives thousands of miles away but returned to her shop for the haircut.

"That's what you call dedication to your hairdresser!" Levesque joked.