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Sean South starts now.

Yeah. South starts now. Maryland The old cafe in Maryland is mostly empty this time of night.

Music plays overhead.

A pedal steel guitar

Twin fiddles

The cook is cleaning his flat top

And the waitress is reading a magazine

Oh thank God magazine still exists

In our A-I age

I smell cured pork and onions.

There are globe lamps hanging over the bar.

Half of my American youth happened in places like this.

The only thing missing is the smoking section.

I sit at the counter.

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