William Merritt Chase Idle Hours painting

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swallowed quarters, dollars, more voraciously even than the iconic Pac-Man had once gobbled cookies off a million arcade screens in an era now quaint if not unknown to the current crowd.Wandering among the machines, Corky distributed free drugs to the kids.These small plastic bags each contained eight doses of Ecstasy—or Extasy, if you’d gone to a public school—with a block-lettered label that promised FREE X, and then suggested, JUST REMEMBER WHO YOUR FRIEND IS.He was pretending to be a dealer drumming up expected to see any of these brats again.Some kids accepted the packets, thought it was cool.Others showed no interest. Of those who declined, none made an effort to report him to anyone; nobody liked a rat.In a few instances, Corky slipped the bags into kids’ jacket pockets without their knowledge. Let them find it later, be amazed.Some would take the stuff. Some would throw it away or give it away. In the end, he would have succeeded in contaminating a few more brains.Truth: He wasn’t interested in creating addicts. He would have given away heroin or even crack cocaine if that hadstudies of Ecstasy revealed that five years after taking just a single dose