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Fan conventions: a first-timer's survival guide
Badges, lines, autograph budgets and the unwritten rules — what a first convention actually costs you in money and patience, and how to spend both well.

Badges, lines, autograph budgets and the unwritten rules — what a first convention actually costs you in money and patience, and how to spend both well.

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