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Diana Mara Henry's avatar

As my Harvard classmate wrote in the jingle: The Heartbeat of America!" I love it. Good to know it's still out there. From Bernie/zombieland....

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Richie McGinniss's avatar

Thanks, Bernie!

The heart is, indeed, still beating! Sometimes you find the pulse in the most unexpected of places.

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Diana Mara Henry's avatar

I meant that I was writing from Vermont, not from Bernie...

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Melissa Fountain's avatar

I loved this also. Flashbacks of The Stone Lion (no, I did not miss the letter "d") was a bar where I worked in a tiny town in Oregon when I was in college. The college town was actually a dry town (1977-9) and 4 miles from college was the pizza place/bar where I served beer and wine, usually alone. The clientele were college students, police academy students et. al., mill workers and a diverse group individuals on their way home from work and, uh, everyone else. It was amazing for this girl from L.A.

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Richie McGinniss's avatar

Thanks, Melissa!

I look back fondly on my bartending days, though in DC the clientele were a bunch of drunken posers for the most part--HAHA!

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Robert Deighton's avatar

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Lauren Cleaver's avatar

Loved this.

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Richie McGinniss's avatar

Thanks, Lauren! Cheers

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