You're sitting alone on a stool in a busy little pub in St. Paul, Minnesota. A man you don't know comes up and sits next to you. He's probably had a few already, and he starts talking to you.

The man is a reporter -- a newspaper reporter for the St. Paul Times. He wants to tell you about the biggest story he ever wrote, and why he never published it.

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