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Jun 26
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New book covers airplane sick bag collec...

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Unless you’ve had to use one, you probably don’t think about the airplane sick bag, but some people actually collect them!

Elizabeth McCafferty, Journalist, Filmmaker and author of ‘Sicko’, which covers one person’s collection of them, joins to discuss.

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