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'I Wanted To Be Somebody': Bergen County Barber Achieves American Dream With New Mobile Shop 'I Wanted To Be Somebody': Bergen County Barber Achieves American Dream With New Mobile Shop
'I Wanted To Be Somebody': Bergen County Barber Achieves American Dream With New Mobile Shop Cutting hair has always come naturally to 29-year-old Bergen County barber Starlyn Delgado. He first learned how as a kid, when he moved to Brooklyn from the Dominican Republic and spent time visiting his dad's friend's barbershop in Brooklyn.  By the time he was in middle school, Delgado was giving shape-ups to his friends. And when he moved to New Jersey, he began working at Top Cutz in Hasbrouck Heights. "My family didn't come to the U.S. just for me to be somebody else," said Delgado, a dad of two from Hackensack. "I wanted to be somebody -- I wanted to be successful." The COVID-19 p…

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