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Then again, your escape should be easy

Posted on November 28, 2006 by bob harris

If the below seems like too much to handle, and you’d just like to get the hell away for a while… just buy some of this cheese.

(Actually, you can probably find even cheaper air tix by visiting the Trebekistan.com travel links — just click over and play around in the right-hand column for a while.)

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