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Word: hardheaded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hagan was drinking, fighting and smoking PCP with the best of the home boys. Eager to please the older gang members, he became the fearless errand boy, quickly learning to rob and steal and priding himself on his growing reputation as a "crazy." He says: "I was like a hardhead. The more my parents told me to stay away from gangs, the more I wanted to hang with them." He has his own ideas about parenthood: "If I had a son, I would give him a choice: either he can go to school and be a goody-goody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life And Death With the Gangs | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

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