Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

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Something about queuing up made Dé itchy.

He was the first kid in his village to get his cleft lip fixed by the traveling doctors on the Operation Smile ship and the first deckhand on his ship to get his face busted up waiting in line to get into The Steamboat Bar in River Rouge, Michigan.

Back home, among many myths, they said America had unlimited soda pop.

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