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PIN PALS

By Alyssa Roenigk

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Marlee Baker hasn't missed an Olympics—winter or summer—since 1984. Every two years, she meticulously plans a two-week vacation around The Games, then packs up her pins and heads to the host city. But she never pre-buys tickets. Her pins take care of that. Baker, like hundreds of folks here in Beijing, is a pin trader. Much has been made of the obsession with Olympic pin trading, but the stories usually focus on the value of specific pins, whether the pin-trading business is on t ...

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