"We’ll make plenty of money selling this stuff. We’re doing okay."

At first, Gerald Williams couldn’t help but flinch when he felt the unfamiliar buzz of an electric hair clipper tickle the back of his neck just behind his ears.

It had been at least three years since Williams, 48, cut his hair, he said. For years he had done it himself, dragging a stick razor across his scalp to give himself a skin head that was low-maintenance enough for living on the street. But his hair had grown back wild and coarse.

The cure came Tuesday at an event for homeless people at the ACTS Firemen’s Hall Community Center in Tampa. In one place and all at the same time, people could get hair cuts, flu shots and other necessities at no cost.

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