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I Just Got Home From a Trip With 12 People. It Would Have Been Unbearable Were It Not for a Simple, Underrated Solution. Go to Paris with a gaggle of people. Stay separately. See them twice. Luke Winkie

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My Millennial Editor Thinks This Is the Most Harrowing Challenge of All. We Used to Do It All the Time. -- Dan Kois

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