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8-Year-Old Bro King Bullied And Called ‘A Girl’ For His Spectacular Flow Kept Growing It Out For A Damn Good Cause

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Eight-year-old (future bro king) Christian McPhilamy from Melbourne, Florida grew his spectacular flow out for over two years after seeing a commercial for St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital depicting kids his age battling cancer. He played sports with hair halfway down his back, he endured repeated taunts from bullies that he looked like ‘a girl’, and when it was all said and done this little bro chopped off that beautifully flowing blonde lettuce and sent it to ‘Children With Hair Loss’, a charity for whose mission is ‘covering young heads to heal young hearts.

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I’m not going to lie, he does look a little bit like a young Joe Dirt from the back (not that there’s anything wrong with that at all, because Joe Dirt’s the man)

The TODAY Show reports:

Christian and his mom have a nightly ritual where they take an iPad and search for whatever fascinates him on Google. He’s usually interested in animals but that night, Christian looked up St. Jude’s. When an ad for a hair donation charity popped up, he asked Thomas what it meant. She explained to him people can donate their locks to cancer patients who have lost theirs due to chemotherapy.
“And he said, ‘I want to do that,'” Thomas, 28, recalled. “I was blown away… usually when Christian sets his mind to something, he pretty much goes with it. He doesn’t let anything falter his goals. I was pretty confident that he was actually going to follow through with it.”

At the time he had a short spiky do, but with his mom’s OK, Christian began growing out his blond hair.
The taunts and comments started when it got below his chin.
“Sometimes they would call me a girl,” Christian told TODAY Parents.
“Even out and about or at a park, he would be playing with a bunch of boys and they’d be like, ‘You look like a girl.’ And he would just explain to them. He held his head high and he never once said that he wanted to cut it off ever,” Christian’s mom added.
One man bluntly told Christian his hair was getting too long and he needed to do something about it, but once he found out about the boy’s mission, he offered a heartfelt apology, Thomas said.

Thomas also got used to hearing “Your daughters are so pretty” when she was out with Christian and his younger sister. At a doctor’s appointment, a physician once greeted Christian with a cheery, “Oh, hey beautiful girl,” to which Christian calmly replied, ‘I’m a boy.”
Even though he seemed unfazed by the comments, Thomas still always tried to reassure him.
“I just told him, buddy, if you’ve got goals and you want to reach them, you have to follow them. You can’t let what anybody says to you bring you down, and he never did,” she said.
Christian’s hair grew well down his back, but he would only wear it down despite heavy encouragement from Thomas to put it up.
The big haircut day finally came last Wednesday, as the family gathered in Christian’s room and his mom took scissors into her hands.
With his thick hair partitioned into pony tails, the two-and-a-half-year-mission produced four 10-inch long sections that the family sent to Children With Hair Loss. The charity provides free wigs to kids who have lost their locks for any reason, including cancer, alopecia and burns.

….That moment when an 8-year-old bro has already made a bigger difference in someone’s life than you and you’re like a hundred years older than him….

I’d like to admit that this moved me so much that I’m going to grow my hair out for children in need, but I’m not sure my better half would allow me to spend two years with a ponytail when I keep it so high and tight at the moment. The flip side of that is that I’m (only in the eyes of the law, not in maturity) and adult, and can make a donation to this awesome charity. This little bro doesn’t work, he has no income, so he made a difference not by his checkbook but by growing out those locks.

To read the FULL STORY on TODAY, click here. And if you’re interested in the ‘Children With Hair Loss’ charity you can CLICK HERE to find out more.