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Somewhere around the time a drunken frat boy out for his 21st birthday hits rewind on Toby Keith’s “I Love This Bar” for the 100th time, tending bar starts seeming more like a job and less like a party.

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If you play your cards right and become friends with the bar staff, it’s not at all unusual to eventually ask your bartender out on a date.

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It’s hard to explain the sound a cocktail shaker makes when ice smashes back and forth between its metallic walls. It’s a sexy crackling noise that heightens all the senses, a sedated mini-explosion being muffled in a small object held with two hands.

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Do not trust a guy who orders a vodka soda.

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To be an American is to disagree but also champion the collective good for all of us.

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The perfect first date for a bartender involves bowling, beer, Netflix, and a nightcap; it honestly is that simple.

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Life is about being comfortable in your own skin.

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I believe the definition of “grey” is to give an individual as much of yourself as you can without overly extending yourself at the end of the day.

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“I am told I resemble Leo quite often,” Annerud says.

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“I don’t like vodka.”