"This is Duat. He is 34 years old and from Africa. As I recall, he said his mother was South African and father was Sudanese. Before I even got to set up shop, he raised his hand toward me and gestured that he wanted a cut. It turned out that the man sitting next to him was on the streets and had seen me before cutting hair for his friends and told Duat what I do. He came over quite excited with a smile on his face and introduced himself. He was looking quite rough when I saw him, and before I even got to ask what was wrong, he told me, 'I have just come out of the hospital.' What had happened was he was tending to the aid of one of his sisters, who had an abusive partner. When he went to help her out, he got swarmed and attacked by five or six men — beating him so hard it landed him in the hospital for almost a week."
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