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Sorry.
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Hey, what can I get you?
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A Bocca Tonic.
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Bocca Tonic?
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Come on.
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It's my first drink of the night.
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Test me a little.
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Uh, I don't know.
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Uh, a Negroni?
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A what?
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Uh...
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I'm kidding.
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The Negroni.
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First made in 1919 for Count Camillo Negroni, when he swapped the soda water with his usual drink, the Americano, for a gin.
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Okay.
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Haven't seen me here before.
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It's not really in my neighborhood.
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Not your neighborhood?
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Where are you from?
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Greenwich.
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Greenwich?
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Sounds nice.
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Bartenders up there don't give history lessons.
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Well, bartenders in Greenwich don't make Negronis like this.
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You wanna leave it open or closed?
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Open properly is not daddy's money.
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It's a cigarette.
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It was invented by Alfonso Cigaretti in 1462.
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I'm kidding.
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I don't really know who invented the cigarette.
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You're kind of weird, but kind of cute, too.
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Well, then I'm kind of offended, but I'm also kind of flattered.
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Here.
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Come on.
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You know what?
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It's for the best.
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I've been trying to quit.
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Well, maybe it's a sign.
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Or maybe you just need to get one that works.
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This whole thing.
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Well, it works.
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That's Rush Fondheim, you know?
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Here's the right mark.
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Don't know what you're talking about.
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Sure you do.
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You're going slow, playing the safe, not lifting too much at once.
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I mean, stop me if I'm wrong.
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Well, you're wrong.
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And we're also closed, so take off.
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Victor Sullivan, you can call me Sully.
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Thank you.
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I won't, but thank you.
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I got a job coming up.
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A big one.
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I need another set of hands on it.
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So this is what you do?
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You stumble in the bars, trying to pick up an accomplice?
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I'm offering you a real ticket out of here.
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A chance to see places you only read about in books.
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What do you say?
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You missed the read, Victor.
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I'm not a mark in some bar.
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And some of us here would really like to go home, so...
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Get out.
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Fair enough.
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Bye now.
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Hey, Goldie, let me get a beer.
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Sure.
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You little bitch.

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