She had fourteen inches of blonde hair cut, an experience she says felt "scratchy". "I just wanted to help people, if they're sick I can help them too," she said.
JAFFREY, NH (CBS) - When 9-year-old Vernonique Pomerleau shaved her head for the Kid's Cancer Buzz-Off at Gillette Stadium last spring, she was excited to be doing something for children with cancer. She heard an ad for the event on the radio and begged her mother to take her from her home in Jaffrey, New Hampshire to Foxboro, Massachusetts.
"She was very persistent," said her mother Marsha. " I've always known she's a special person."
She had fourteen inches of blonde hair cut, an experience she says felt "scratchy". "I just wanted to help people, if they're sick I can help them too," she said.
But she never expected the public reaction she would get to her new bald look. "Over the summer a lot of people would point and say is that a boy or a girl, and if it's a boy why is he wearing a dress," said Marsha Pomerleau.
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