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Instagram user [Jedidiah Jenkins](https://instagram.com/jedidiahjenkins/) posted a photo of the former White Stripes frontman mingling with his street’s fellow residents. “Our little dead-end street is populated primarily with elderly and quiet people,” Jenkins wrote. “The houses are modest and suburban. My mom has been doing this potluck for over a decade. At the bottom of our street, there is a large gated historic home shrouded in trees. We’ve never really spotted that neighbor. But we have from time to time heard guitar coming from the garage.” Jenkins added that, besides his sister, nobody seemed to know who White was. 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