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“At the start when the police would come into the bar the kids would yell, “switch” because the boys were dancing with boys and then the boys would grab a girl,” she explained. “Then one night they [the police] came in and somebody yelled “switch” and all of the sudden he [the officer] took his nightstick and slid it down to the floor and said, “Carry on kids.” And we did ever since.”
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