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That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.

Many aerophobes who fly nonetheless rev up for their ordeal by popping tranquilizers or getting stoned on marijuana at the terminal parking lot or drowning their fears at the airport bars.

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