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Hair-raising holidays

have decided to retire from having excitements. In truth, I have never been all that keen on them. I have never seen the attraction of any activity that involves going up and then down things, getting wet in any body of water other than a shower, going very fast and getting giddy. I was once cajoled, at the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland, into going on a

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