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Submitted to Contest #233
"Why do you desire alcohol?” This was the second time that the man behind the bar had repeated this sentence. Todd hadn’t answered the first time, not because he hadn’t heard him but because he had never been asked this question by a bartender before. Surely the role of a bartender, in a spot like this, was to passively serve you with alcohol until you either became merry, fell into a drunken stupor or ran out of money and therefore had no choice but to leave. A bartender’s role was definitely not to question its patrons about whether or n...
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