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This Woman Gives Free Haircuts to Those Less Fortunate
Last summer, Katie Steller pulled off the freeway on her way to work in Minneapolis. She stopped at a traffic light, where a man was sitting with a sign asking for help. She rolled down her window.
“Hey!” she shouted. “I’m driving around giving free haircuts. If I go grab my chair, do you want one right now?”
The man looked to be in his 60s. He was heavyset, balding, and missing a few teeth. As Steller likes to tell the story, he laughed, then paused. “Actually,” he said, “I have a funeral to go to this week. I was really hoping to get a haircut.”
“I’ll be right back,” Steller said.
She drove off, went to the salon she owns, and recruited one of her stylists to help her load a red chair into her car. Then the two of them drove back. The man, named Edward, took a seat, and they trimmed his curly graying hair. He told them about growing up in Mississippi, about moving to Minnesota to be closer to his adult children, and how he still talks to his mom every day.
After Steller was done, Edward looked in a mirror. “I look good!” he said. “I’ll have to remember to put my teeth in next time.”
To date, Steller has given 30 or so such haircuts to people around the city. These clients are all living on the margins, and she is keenly aware of the power of her cleanup job.
“It’s more than a haircut,” she says. “I want it to be a gateway, to show value and respect, but also to get to know people. I want to build relationships.”
So far, it’s working, she says. “I’ve had people reach out from around the country, saying, ‘I’m going to shelters and cutting hair.’ Or, ‘I’ve driven by this woman for the past two years, and I’ve never stopped to say hi. Now I say hi to her every time I drive by.’”
And it all began with a belief in simple acts of kindness, such as a free haircut. “The way you show up in the world matters,” says Steller. “You have no idea what people are going to do with the kindness that you give them.”
New wors and expressions
· Katie Steller pulled off the freeway 停車
· She stopped at a traffic light. 停在交通燈下
· She rolled down her window. 搖下車窗
· I’m driving around 開車到處轉轉
· If I go grab my chair 拿個椅子
· She drove off 開走了
· He told them about growing up in Mississippi, about moving to Minnesota 成長經歷/搬家
· And it all began with a belief in simple acts of kindness 善舉
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