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Twilight Freaks Are Good Business for Washington Hotels

| November 20, 2008 at 4:52 PM | 1 Comment

Twilighters — as the increasingly-terrifying devotees of Stephenie Meyer's vampire romances have been dubbed — will apparently do anything to live out some kind of real-life Twilight-esque experiences.

With the film adaptation of the book coming out tomorrow, Twilight-mania is in full force around the nation. While half the Twilight freaks are busy mobbing star Robert Pattinson at the Ritz-Carlton San Francisco, the other half are flocking to Washington (where the story is set) to try to get a little taste of life in the fictional vampire-y world.

According to a post on Filmdrunk today (entitled "Town in WA Fleecing 'Twilight' Retards" — hey, they said it, not us), Meyer apparently selected Forks, Washington as the setting for the story because it happened to be the rainiest city in the U.S., and, natch, the Twilighters have been descending upon the tiny unsuspecting town in droves.

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