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OFF THE leash THE BEN TROVATO COLUMN

I got a call the other day from the courageous young man who recently took the reins of this snorting beast of a magazine. He gave me a fake deadline and told me that the theme of this issue was the census. I was confused.

“Are you talking about the people who come around to your house in the middle of the night and start counting how much stuff you have before taking your family away in the back of a van?” I asked. There was no answer. He must have cut the call and

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