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Notes of a Native Son
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- That year in New Jersey lives in my mind as though it were the year during which, having an unsuspected predilection for it, I first contracted some dread, chronic disease, the unfailing symptom of which is a kind of blind fever, a pounding in the skull and fire in the bowels.†
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- To smash something is the ghetto's chronic need.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(chronic) of something bad: lasting a long time or happening repeatedly -- especially in relation to illness
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, Chronics is a proper noun referring to an Italian pop and punk band.