Little Boy Cuts Off All His Hair and Donates It To Cancer Survivors

Thomas Moore was so moved by a video he saw of a young girl, Kyssi Andrews, who had lost her hair to chemotherapy that he knew he needed to do something to help. So the 10-year-old Maryland native decided to spend two years growing out his hair so that he could cut it all off and donate it to kids battling cancer, according to Refinery29.

Even though the process, which started shortly before his 8th birthday, was at times uncomfortable — the child’s aunt Amber Ray told Buzzfeed that it got so long at one point that it needed to be cornrowed, which he did not enjoy at all — Moore refused to give up. When he came close to throwing in the towel, he and his family would “re-focus on the reason for growing it,” according to Refinery29.

And, of course, it paid off. Last week, Ray shared a side-by-side before-and-after of her nephew on Instagram. In the first image, the adorable boy’s long hair hangs loosely past his shoulders. In the second, he’s holding his shorn hair in both hands. The post has received more than 113,000 likes and more than 57,000 retweets.

It turns out Moore surpassed even his own expectations — even though he really didn’t have expectations. He “just wanted it to be long enough to make the girl happy,” he told Buzzfeed, referring to his original intention to donate his hair to the girl from the video. But Moore ended up growing so much hair, it was enough to be made into not one but three wigs!

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The generous boy said he felt good about the chop, and “hoped it would make other people happy,” according to Buzzfeed. It turns out it will not only make cancer survivors happy, but it has all of social media practically bawling.

Even celebrity Zendaya liked the tweet.

Ray says that Moore is surprised that the tweet went viral, but thinks it’s a “good thing.” His mother, Angie Pulos, told NBC, “I think it’s really fantastic that he felt like he could do something so selfless to help somebody else so much,” according to Refinery29. And Moore doesn’t even mind going back to school without his trademark mane. He feels it was all worth it in the end.

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