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"Gangs have always existed—they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the…"

"For all practical purposes, wheat is civilization. It produces what we euphemistically call the staff of life, a staf…"

"The Arkansawyers are of the type of the old Hoosiers, Crackers, Pikers, and the Big Smoky mountaineers. The Hoosiers …"

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"Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking."

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