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"Last fall I found out that the daughter of one of my friends from nursing school was diagnosed with cancer," she told the news station. "Having been a cancer nurse I knew what she was about to go through."
Seeing how much her own children enjoyed the wig, she thought sending one to her friend’s child might help cheer her up.
Holly uses yarn because its texture is more comfortable on the head of a child who lost their hair due to chemotherapy than a traditional wig.
"It's so precious," Christensen said. "She's stroking her Rapunzel hair and she's just like 'pretty soon my hair is going to grow back and I'm going to have real Rapunzel hair'."
Since requests for the wigs have begun pouring in, a GoFundMe page to help cover the costs of yarn has raised more than $6,000. Volunteers around the country are also helping to take on some of Christensen’s workload.
Christensen hopes to make as many wigs as possible to fill every request. Recipients do not have to pay for the wigs.
More info: http://www.themagicyarnproject.com/
Adapted from: http://www.themagicyarnproject.com/
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