Word: habitua
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loved and worked at until his death, Garcia found any studies intolerable. He didn't bother finishing high school, enlisting in the Army at 17. Eight AWOLs and two courts-martial later, he was back on the San Francisco streets and hooked up with Robert Hunter, a coffeehouse habitua and, within a few years, the lyricist for Garcia's songs. He also met Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann, who would become the Dead stalwarts on rhythm guitar and drums. They formed a jug band, Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, and when they went electric in 1965--Bob Dylan having...
...craving for caffeine and company, along with an unfinished manuscript, to the new Borders in the city's north end. "Bookshops with coffee bars are unlike restaurants, where you can't move around, and libraries, where you can't talk," he explains. Notes Ted Marrone, a Denver superstore habitua: "You can't find a better buy in entertainment." Geoffrey Richards, a Chicago law student, also heads for his neighborhood Borders with more than John Grisham novels on his mind. "Maybe you spot someone looking at a book on Rubens. It's a great, innocent way to meet people...
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