My wife and I love watching The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. One of our favorite segments is when he does hashtags, where he casts

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By Brian Keepers The Nissan Pathfinder rumbles along the narrow, winding dirt road. Actually, more like a dirt path. It’s a rough ride–I’m sitting in

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