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Up to that moment, I would spend my
free time cutting hair, for my kids,
brothers, friends and even neighbors—
and never charged them a dime. Some
insisted and did pay me. That’s when I
asked myself: “why don’t I do this for a
living?” That’s how I started, first with
the idea I’d open a barber shop in my
front porch, adapting any old chair to a
spinning base, like those old barber
chairs one sees all over the place. You
know, d