I don't know about you, but my Facebook news feed has been blowing up lately with photos of friend's kids going off to homecoming and I have to tell you, I'm so glad I'm not a teenager. Not that I don't like my friend's photos, but because being a teen is tough business.

I can't even fathom the strength and bravery it must take to face each day.  Now imagine being a teenage girl fighting cancer, losing all your hair, and trying to find the courage to go to the homecoming dance without feeling self conscious. Impossible, right? Not for one incredible girl.

Meet Allie Allen, a junior at Collierville High School in Collierville, Tennessee who has faced more in her young life than you or I, or most people for that matter, will ever go through. Luckily for Allie, she has an amazing friend in Brayden Carpenter.

Brayden, a senior, has been friends with Allie since they were in elementary school, and he's been by her side since the day she was diagnosed. When he learned that Allie would have to shave her head, Brayden decided to shave his as well to show Allie that he's got her back and so she wouldn't feel uncomfortable. Not only that, but they went to homecoming together and had the time of their lives.

In an interview with the Today show, Brayden explained his decision to shave his head: "I figured if she's not going to have hair, neither should I. She still looked beautiful and it didn't matter if she had hair or not. It's just hair. It grows back."

Allie also spoke with the Today show and told them, "It was so sweet of him. He really didn't have to do that, even though a part of me felt relieved that I wasn't going to be the only bald person at the dance."

With all the negative news we hear about entitled, self serving teens, this story just goes to show that there are kids breaking the mold.

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