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Jim Cain, a semireformed chain-smoking 80-year-old from Perry, Okla., with a wispy gray ponytail and a shy smile, didn’t set out to become a plumbing supply store legend. But then again, who even knew ...

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Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

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