Tommy Dotson waits for his first customer of the day inside his barbershop, T.E.DÕZ Barbershop, in Indianapolis' Mars Hill neighborhood Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. Dotson used $15,000 of his savings, money left to him by his mother, to repair the old building and opened in February 2020. One month later, COVID-19 forced him to shut down. This was one of a series of obstacles Dotson has faced along the way to opening the shop. Despite the obstacles, he remains optimistic.
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