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<p class="entry-meta"><time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2015-09-11T14:01:02+00:00">September 11, 2015</time> by <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a href="author/Ulkieab" class="entry-author-link" itemprop="url" rel="author"><span class="entry-author-name" itemprop="name">Alison Wright</span></a></span>  </p></header><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"><a href="wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-is-a-must-see-on-netflix" aria-hidden="true"><img width="634" height="360" src="wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Wet-Hot-American-Summer-First-Day-of-Camp-Netflix-Poster-634x360.jpg" class="alignleft post-image entry-image" alt="Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp Is a Must See on Netflix" itemprop="image"/></a><p>It’s the summer and Cory and I just want to let loose and enjoy ourselves. He’s been under a lot of stress with his job the past year and he just needed to let it all go. We cruised around Netflix and watched some Dave Attell and Doug Benson but than stuck to Wet Hot [&hellip;]</p>
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