Chapter 15: A Telegram
Jo returns with shorn head: 'I couldn't bear to be idle,' and weeps that night for her 'one beauty.'
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From Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Jo sells her long chestnut hair for twenty-five dollars to fund Marmee's trip to nurse Father, one of the novel's most iconic acts of sacrifice.
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