From skid row to street barber: Modesto man restores dignity to the homeless with haircuts

(FOX40.COM) — Paul Samsin, known on the streets and online as “Bouncebacc Sammy”, earned his nickname after surviving more than a decade of being homeless.

“They be like, ‘Dang, you bounced back,’” he recalls. “I did it so many times, I just took on the name Bouncebacc Sammy.”

He was born in Modesto, but he journeyed through homelessness from the Bay Area to LA’s skid row, and all across the Central Valley. One day, his path toward stability began with something as simple as a haircut…

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