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“Hell we can’t. We’ve got to give them something ... only more addictive than any yet conceived in the smoky depths of any opium den. This was life, and life was a fascinating, exhilarating ...

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“More people are bound to stop in downtown Pleasanton if you say, ‘Oh my god, there are tunnels beneath the streets that used to go from one opium den to another,’” MacLennan said.