Sometimes age arrives overnight, a thud at the front door, like a lost bag from the airport.

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David Pykon, a New York hedge-fund trader, says he was given conflicting information by different American Airlines supervisors on daily expenses after his bag was lost on a Thanksgiving trip to Dallas last year.

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Getting my bag and my guitar was a lost cause, and I had no place to sleep.

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