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Buddy Love, center, and Mike Bradley, right, laugh at a story Howard McCallum, left, was telling during the Saturday morning rush at Buddy Love’s Barber Shop on Highland Avenue in Muncie.
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Tre Cook, 8, gets his hair cut by Buddy Love at Love’s East Highland Avenue barbershop in Muncie.
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Buddy Love cuts Martice Redfield’s hair at his barber shop on Highland Avenue on Muncie’s east side.
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Mickey Hill, 11, points to his king as his brother Noah Hill, 7, moves one of his pawns. The brothers were playing chess while they waited for haircuts at Buddy Love’s barbershop.
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Michael Long (right) and Cedric Powell talk about growing up in the Whitley neighborhood on Muncie’s northeast side. Powell and his son Jordan Powell, 8 (not pictured), were waiting for haircuts at Buddy Love’s Barber Shop on a busy Saturday morning.
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Buddy Love laughs as Adrian Barrett argues with other customers about whether or not pop music star Michael Jackson was guilty of child molestation in the barbershop on a Saturday morning.
Second chances
After spending 12-and-one-half years in prison Buddy Love opened his barber shop on the northeast side of Muncie, Ind., with the hope of influencing the young men in what he sees as Muncie's forgotten black community to not follow that led him to a murder conviction at a young age.