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NOISE CANCELING HEADPHONES

When Fighting It Nolonger Works

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Stephanie Mason-Teague
Sep 16, 2023
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I spent the night in the Denver airport last night.

When the red banner … CANCELED … marched across the screen and the line began to form at the ticket counter, I had visions of how horrible it was going to be. Spending the night with hundreds of other people, trying to get comfortable on hard plastic seats, and trying to ignore the bright fluorescent li…

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