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FORKS, Wash. – For some reason, Randy Lato's "Vampire Voyages" boat trips just haven't brought in the big tourist bucks yet. He hasn't quite worked out a plausible connection between fishing and the fictional "Twilight" series author Stephenie Meyer set in this little Olympic Peninsula town. "I've only read two books in my entire life," Lato said – and "Twilight" wasn't one of them. (Although it's his understanding that heroine Bella's dad was a pretty good fisherman.) So when people ask what fishing has to do with vampires, Lato says, "We're going to float down the damn river looking for vampires climbin' up the trees just like in the movies." He exemplifies the major blessing and slight curse that the "Twilight" book and movie series – "New Moon," the latest installment, opened Friday – has become to this town of 3,000 or so.

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