00:03and it's just about you know doing the right thing putting your heart in the right place
00:08and you're going to help more people than you ever realize so the story goes like this i own a
00:12small
00:13hair salon and every thursday at 4 p.m for eight months the same woman booked an appointment
00:17she never got a haircut she just sat in the chair looked into the mirror and asked me to brush
00:22it
00:23and i didn't know why until she suddenly stopped showing up her name was renee 52 years old
00:30always early always polite always tipped in cash even though she barely let me touch her hair
00:35the first few weeks i thought she was just really particular and then one thursday she came in
00:40wearing a scarf instead of letting her hair show and i understood she had just started chemo she
00:46just hadn't told me yet i'm not ready to cut it she said quietly that day but i don't want
00:53to lose it
00:54without saying goodbye first so every week for as long as she had hair i brushed it slowly however
01:02long she wanted we didn't always talk sometimes she cried sometimes she told me about her daughter's
01:08wedding that she was terrified she wouldn't live to see and in six weeks most of it was gone she
01:14asked
01:14me to shave the rest and i did it for free and i cried more than she did but she
01:20looked at herself
01:20in the mirror for a long time that day and said i look like a fighter she kept coming in
01:28every thursday
01:28even though she didn't have hair anymore even during the roughest weeks of treatment some days
01:34she just sat in the chair with her eyes closed while i rubbed lotion on her scalp
01:38it's the only hour all week that nobody needs anything from me she once told me
01:44and then one thursday she didn't show up no call or anything and i told myself that she was just
01:50tired from treatment the next week the same thing but then on the third week a young woman walked into
01:56my salon holding a small box it was renee's daughter
02:05renee had passed two weeks earlier
02:09in the box was a photo of her with her hair and a note saying thank you for making thursdays
02:15feel
02:15like mine again her daughter asked if i would do her hair for her wedding that renee never got to
02:20see
02:20and of course i said yes and of course i did it for free and i tucked her mother's photo
02:25into the
02:26flowers around the mirror where she sat every week every thursday at 4 p.m and i still leave that
02:32hour
02:32open because some habits you don't want to break even when the reason is gone
02:43wow i'm not crying you're crying we all are cutting onions wow that was that was amazing
02:53thanks for sharing that andy i'm sure i've you know given your current stature you know month and a half
03:00or two months or a little over a month double mastectomy recovery and you know what your
03:05future holds for you for you to share that story is shows a lot of strength
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