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Born in Nebraska and raised in South Dakota, Leahy worked in his youth as a cowhand, a soda jerk and a clerk in a trading post.

When Megan Hastings was 10 years old she began having "jerking tics" but thought it was anxiety.

As for Arthur, the eye midge grants him a second life of sorts, popping itself into his dead skull and jerking him from prone into a seated position.

“At the beginning of the disease nobody knew he had any issue, other than he seemed like a total jerk,” she recalled.

Dancers in bright costumes filled the streets as music filled the air, while rows of stalls offered fragrant jerk chicken, curry goat and rum punch cocktails.