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cd2a896b-838e-4e39-996c-687538da64d5 | Today me and my wife were supposed to go to Italy for five days. | Except we were turned away at the airport before we could leave. The woman at the counter refused my passport. She says because it only has a month left on it. The trip we were supposed to take was only five days. | [
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