Christy Smith has been growing her hair since high school. When it started getting stepped on, caught on door handles or slammed in the car door, she wanted to cut it, but her kids wouldn’t let her.
“My kids begged me to keep it long,” Christy says. “They were always asking me to take it out of a braid to show their friends.”
When Christy visited the kids’ school, her hair became the subject of a…