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authentocrat

- a staunch adherent to all things authentic. In travel one who rejects the trappings and experiences of mass tourism and instead prizes that which fuels both genuine and rooted in place as in- Philippa's a true authentocrat - I mean, she spent her last vacation meeting with artisanal cheesemakers at dairies in Wisconsin. - Nathan Lump

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