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[6] Locks of Love says that, despite rumors to the contrary, children and their families are never charged for the hair prosthetics they receive.

[8] In 2013, Forbes and The Huffington Post reported that up to US$6 million-worth of hair donations are unaccounted for by the charity each year.

[3] After launching aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, astronaut Sunita Williams arranged to donate her ponytail to Locks of Love.

Fellow astronaut Joan Higginbotham cut her hair aboard the International Space Station, and the ponytail was brought back to Earth by the STS-116 crew.

[13] All-American football player and Chicago Bears first-round draft pick Gabe Carimi's maternal uncle suffered from leukemia as a child, underwent chemotherapy while he was in second grade, and lost his hair in the process.

[14] Professional wrestler The Honky Tonk Man has stated that he donates his hair to Locks of Love once a year.

Girl donating her hair
A 2007 'hair donation day' at the American Aviano Air Base in Italy
Sunita L. Williams (background) and Joan E. Higginbotham (foreground) in the International Space Station 's Destiny laboratory . The hair did not clog the instrument panel, as was feared.