My 6-Year-Old Daughter Came Home From Aunt’s House After A Cousin Spa Day And Lifted Her Hat…

stuck out around her ears. The back looked like someone had grabbed handfuls and cut without looking. Above her left ear, a small red line had dried into the stubble.

Her braid was gone.

The long dark braid she had been growing since she was three. The braid she called her princess rope. The braid I brushed every morning before school while she sat on continue reading …