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Local notable Buzz Bissinger generates national, er, buzz with a piece on his strange addiction

Local resident and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger (writer of Friday Night Lights and Prayer for the City) sparked national headscratching with a confessional essay in GQ detailing his intense shopping addiction. Prepare to be amazed/confused/enthralled/disturbed.

The approximate amount I spent on the four-day trip is $51,000. That is equivalent to roughly a full year's tuition at my son's college, Kenyon. I think about that. The self-indulgence is obvious. But it is my money, and I have paid his tuition for four years so he will not be saddled with any loans when he graduates this spring. None of which is really the point, anyway: 

I can't resist for the very reason I can't resist. 

Original source: GQ
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