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I quickly diverted s, like the tell-dressed young men who just sat down at the bar near the first cluster of beer taps - custoht my eye as he loosened the knot of his brown paisley necktie, taking aday at the office no doubt I had seen hihtly atfor the strearipped the large wooden handle, and with a quick flick of my wrist, I cut the flow from the beer tap

I slipped the ten dollar bill out froers and went on with my day

"He’s cute," Marie ister to ring in the sale "He’s married"

Marie looked back at hi," she whispered, appearing slightly puzzled

She obviously didn’t look hard enough "You can see the indentation"

I carried his change back to him Marie looked astonished that I noticed that What she didn’t knoas that the last tiold band around his left-hand ring finger Poormust have accidentally slipped off before he sat down

While Isun bea beautiful hues of pink and purple through the large s that dominated the front of my pub

My pub – I could say that noith absolute authority, although the heartache that I was put through to be in this spot would never, in a million years, be worth it It was not worth the personal loss But then again, when has life ever been fair?

I had prepared e education with honors, plans for a Master’s Degree to follow Still, despite my best efforts, fate apparently had some other future in mind for me, and it wasn’t to worry about other people’s financial situations

I gazed at the s, i sky over the Atlantic Ocean was evenupstairs to the rooftop to watch the sunset over the water but I couldn’t; custoh there was an enormous influx of new people in our little town of Seaport, Rhode Island recently, my customer count oddly remained the same - probably because all of the mayhem was located at the other end of town

It had been almost two months since the tractor-trailers loaded with expensive cah our streets

An extensive production crew immediately followed They came in droves

In the blink of an eye, police barricades blocked off selected roads, and huge, white tents were erected in the e lot next to the vacant warehouse by Pier Seven Towering lights were brought in to illue mechanical cranes were parked on stand-by near the new fence

Long, white caed in rows and it reminded me of the ti , for the -named Hollywood actors arrived With theraphers, and s unleashed in the streets Everyone was in a tizzy

The biggest commotion, however, was caused by a twenty-six year-old actor turned ht… Ryan Christensen Six foot two, dirty blond hair, blue eyes, incredible body fro in ain

Oh, how they all swooned - everyone, except for me

Marie and several of etting a quick glimpse of him on TV I was relieved that they didn’t behave like thefans that was shown on the news

I could never understand what drove woer orout of their , and passing out fro, but there has to be a limit before you lose control of your e up, it wasn’t inpictures of teen heartthrobs on my walls By the time I was in my teens, I had discovered fine art instead My bedroom was covered in the classics with my own artwork dotted in between That was ible

I slid a fresh pitcher of beer over to my current custo slightly to the song playing off of my iPod over the pub’s sound system