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Love bug

A bore, they tell us, is someone who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. “Let me tell you about my operation,” he says. To that familiar definition, our culture has added another: a bore is anyone who relates the details of an airplane incident. You’ve overheard these stories during your own travels: “So since Detroit was snowed in and the computers at Cincinnati were a mess, I had no choice but to . . .

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