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When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.

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Amy Hempel
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Boulevard
Cars
Beer
Car
Gone
Flexing

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