As she sat in a treatment room at the Huntsman Cancer Institute while massive doses of radiation attacked a tumor at the back of her brain, the other women in the room couldn’t keep their eyes off Lacy Gadegaard’s hair.

It wasn’t that Lacy hadn’t lost most of it, like the rest of them. It was that you’d never know it. Flowing out of the beanie she was wearing were long strands of thick, beautiful hair. A veritable oasis in a room full of balding women. Some of them asked Lacy if they could touch it.

“How is your hair so thick while you’re going through the same treatments we are?” they wanted to know.

“Because it isn’t my hair,” she told them.

She explained that she was wearing clip-in hair extensions — strands of human hair laced together to look like the real thing.

She went on to f

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