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To: Sub-Driver

“Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final fatal role of the young would be black man,”

Is it just me, or is the term “junkie” most commonly associated with people who shoot heroin?


27 posted on 11/20/2007 10:51:12 AM PST by Califelephant
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To: Califelephant
Is it just me, or is the term “junkie” most commonly associated with people who shoot heroin?

Usually, it is.
62 posted on 11/20/2007 10:57:29 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Califelephant
Is it just me, or is the term “junkie” most commonly associated with people who shoot heroin?

As far as I know. I suppose he's trying to imply that he grew up on the mean streets of... wherever, and overcame the obstacles laid out before him by The Man.

97 posted on 11/20/2007 11:07:54 AM PST by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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He's a user. So were these guys: "Experimenting" is this guy:
175 posted on 11/20/2007 1:39:10 PM PST by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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