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OWNING A BAR IN COLLEGE LED WRITER ADAM LORENZO TO CAPTURE LIFE LESSONS LEARNED FROM THOSE UNDERGRAD DAYS. A much-loved bar that served the students of Syracuse University in New York, Maggie's now exists only in photographs and memories—and in writer Adam Lorenzo's book, All I Need to Know I Learned from My College Bar. "I think it's a dorm now," says Lorenzo who spent many a night at Maggie's as patron, bartender, and eventually owner while he was an undergrad. "They flattened it. Underneath us was a Follett bookstore, the largest college bookstore chain in America. Being underneath a bar was the worst place for a college bookstore. At a bar, you ruin books all the time." One memory leads to another, and Lorenzo–a TV and film writer who works in both live action and animation–recalls that Maggie's held weekly turtle races during which the turtles would have a bottlecap attached to the backs of their shells and "race" around a customized track. On the following morning, bookstore employees would show up at Maggie's with a shoebox full of the slow-footed winners and also-rans. "Drunk people lose their turtles," explains Lorenzo with a laugh. Turtle racing is just one of the situations captured in Lorenzo's book. Featuring illustrations by Antonio Giovanni Pinna and published by Fayetteville Mafia Press, it is his first foray into publishing. Not only did he have a blast assembling it, but he also took great pleasure using the project to revisit his pre-entertainment industry life. RAISING THE BAR 14 KEYFRAME F R A M E X F R A M E