By:Rebecca Shalomoff
What Fiona Byrne saw on the evening news made her want to drastically change her nine-year-old look. A local TV station featured a story about a young girl who was badly burnt in a fire when she was an infant. Scarred for life, she would never be able to grow hair again. And for years, she has not had enough money to buy a wig.
That night, Fiona, a fifth grader at Hewlett Elementary School, went to bed saddened by the tragic fate of the girl. She would never be able to run her hands through her natural hair. No pig tails, no French braids or twists. No hair for mommy and friends to brush.
The next day, Fiona told her mother, Rosemary Byrne of Woodmere, that she wanted to do something that she hadn't done in years: to cut her hair. Last Christmas, Byrne scanned her daughter
