| "Left, Cabin Cuts owner Tami Pekkala pulls Ingrid Sandberg’s hair up into a ponytail Tuesday before cutting it off to send to Locks of Love." "FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP — Ingrid Sandberg’s parents were a little worried when she was a baby and her hair wasn’t coming in." "“She had little fuzzy, downy hair,” said her mother Ann. “When it came in, we were so excited we let it grow.”" "Until she was 15, when Ingrid went to a beauty shop and had most of it chopped off to send to Locks of Love, which is an organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children under the age of 18 who have suffered hair loss." "She wasn’t done giving yet, though. A year and a half later, she had grown more than enough to meet the 10-inch requirement for donating and sent in another ponytail of hair." "Now, at the age of 20, golden brown locks falling past her waist, Sandberg has donated a third time. Sitting in the salon chair at Cabin Cuts in Quincy — Franklin Township, Ingrid watched owner Tami Pekkala press scissors to the ponytail and begin cutting." "Pekkala separated Ingrid’s hair into two ponytails and cut both of them off at 16 inches. After three or four more inches were taken off and it was styled and layered, Ingrid’s
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