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I regretted not having a long braid when my mother died

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Hair is considered a sacred part of the body in my tribe, and why Mom left me her hair, but I couldn’t give her anything

July marks one year since we buried my mother. She departed this world far too soon in February 2021 – she wasn’t even 62.

Several months after her passing, I found a plastic bag with her hair in it, along with a note she’d written in 2013, explaining that she left this lock – so soft and matted flat – for when she moved on to the other side. “I wanted to leave something still alive,” she wrote, “so I left my hair.”

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/EZUMTK4

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