are dreadlocks irreparable?

Hi Duke
I know quite a few people with dreadlocks. If a person has real dreadlocks(not the kind acheived with styling products or at a salon) they must be cut off to be removed. There is almost always an inch or so of undreaded hair near the root that would leave a small amount of hair to shape into a style. I know Caucasions and African Americans who have had dreads and everyone needed to cut them out when they were bored with it. Straight hair will not comb out...... once its dreaded it stays dreaded. :) Just because its straighter does not mean it will comb out.

I have wondered how theose with naturally straight hair get dreadlocks. The other day
I was told you put something on your hair that
actually melts the strands together! Eww, is
that true? I saw an attractive woman the other
day with real long hair, but it was full of dreads,
would she not be able to reverse the process?
I saw a girl a few days ago that had dreads
last year. Now she doesn`t and her hair is
straight or a bit wavy and I don`t think she
cut it because I doubt it would be as long as
it is if she had.