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Chen was born in Taiwan but grew up in a small town in South Carolina. Although he was a promising artist, his parents wanted him to go to medical school. He tried, got bored, and never went to class. "I thought they would just drop you if you didn't go to class, but instead they flunked me," he says. Dismayed, Chen took a road trip to California, where he thoroughly enjoyed himself until his parents finally tracked him down. The...