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Elizabeth Bales Frank is a novelist and freelance writer whose work has appeared in Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and the New York Times. She lives in Astoria, New York.
The girls who poured my father’s gin-and-tonics were slim, brown-eyed beauties, quick to wipe up his spills, freshen his drinks, and smile at his wisecracks. They looked nothing like him, and they asked for nothing from him. Maria worked in the city bar, where my father drank in the afternoons, and Debbie worked in the suburban bar, where my father drank in the evenings.
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