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Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman
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I was a ghost to them, shimmering in from another dimension in a too-tight Opus the Penguin T-shirt and carrying an Advanced Dungeons and Dragons manual that, I can confess now, I could not really follow.
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