"...Cocaine. The stuff is everywhere."

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"What they see in it," Bernie says, [...] "is instant happiness." [...] "There are two routes to happiness," he continues, back at the wheel of the cart. "Work for it, day after day, like you and I did, or take a chemical shortcut. With the world the way it is, these kids take the shortcut. The long way looks too long." | "Yeah, well, it is long. And then when you've gone the distance, where's the happiness?" | "Behind you," the other man admits.

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