Eugene 'EZ' Lacy, 22, St. Louis

Sunday, July 1, 2012 | 6:00 a.m. CDT

ST. LOUIS, March 4 — Eugene "EZ" Lacy assesses potential customers as they walk by his father's flea market stall in a converted storage building in Jennings, a municipality in northeastern St. Louis County. A middle-aged woman with long hair, meticulously delicate eyebrows and frosted pink lips comments on the panther carpet hanging behind him.

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