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Allan Lengel. "A Rose With Another Name: Crack Pipe." The Washington Post. Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive. 2006. HighBeam Research. 22 Oct. 2012 <http://www.highbeam.com>.
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At an Exxon station in Southeast Washington, behind a thick pane of protective glass, an attendant in a white Yankees cap peddles chips, cheap cigars and fake roses inside tiny glass tubes.
The little cloth flower looks like a novelty item, something a smitten teenager might buy his sweetheart. But the rose is a ruse, police say, a distraction to be thrown away. The real attraction is the four-inch-long tube that holds the flower. It's a thinly disguised crack pipe, law enforcement officials say.
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