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Ten cents a can. Or a bottle. Bottles is heavier. 

Some days it’s all bottles, seems like.

Do twice the liftin’ for the same amount of money.

These bottles, this Wild Hazelnut Lager, the store don’t take ‘em.

“Why don’t you take ‘em?” I ask, truly not knowin’.