Article: Helping out; Women feel shear joy in their donation; They give 10 inches of their hair for ailing children who have lost theirs.(NEWS)(FAITH & VALUES)

Byline: Karen Gail Jostad; Staff Writer

It took less than a minute Thursday for attorney Susan Link and paralegal Cindy Costello to have their long hair lopped off.

They are donating their shorn hair to Locks of Love, a nonprofit organization in Lake Worth, Fla., that provides hairpieces to disadvantaged children with hair loss due to burns, radiation and alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease.

"Most women are real conscious of their hair," said Link, a partner in the Minneapolis law firm of Maslon Edelman Borman and Brand. "And if you don't have it - I can't imagine not having it!"

Hair designers and other clients at Androli salon ...

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