Nor had she known him to be a chain smoker or a constant chewer of qaat, the mild narcotic to which urban Somalis are highly addicted.

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In Mankato Troop 76 alone, amongst the scant few athletes and Honor Roll-ees, there was the Goth kid who collected illegal butterfly knives, the pale basement dweller whose shoulders blistered in the sun, the Magic the Gathering player with a perma-Kool-Aid-stache, the compulsive liar, and the chain smoker who came to meetings still dressed in his Burger King uniform.

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We also lost a playwright, a rebel, a rockstar, a chain-smoker, a renowned artist, a non-profit leader, and one of the most beloved presidents in history, all at once.

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He is a classic type of the generation that received an American education and returned to China a chain-smoker with a thick brush of gray-flecked black hair, Ferragamo eyeglasses, and a bilingual sense of humor.

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