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The Short Version: Kickin' Back

Posted at 1:54 PM on July 25, 2011 by Bill Morelock
Filed under: The Short Version

Something in the concept of vacation was lost in translation for a small, portly but energetic German composer of the 19th century. The idea of kickin' back always seemed to work out as kickin' it up a notch.

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