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Several years ago, journalist Jason Kebler was on his very first work trip.

He was an intern at US News and World Report at the time and he was excited.

We did karaoke the first night and I got a little bit drunk nothing crazy but I fell asleep with my

laptop in my bed watching comedy or something like on Netflix. When Jason woke up the

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