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dale Wood used to take his wife, Eileen, on a Caribbean cruise every year for Valentine’s Day. “We loved spending time together while being well taken care of,” he says. For their 2005 trip, Dale and Eileen, who own an embroidery and silk-screening company in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, chose a seven-night trip on Royal Caribbean’s Adventure of the Seas.

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They’d been onboard for two days when Dale’s chronic heartburn started acting up–too much indulging at the buffet. The ship’s doctor gave Dale some Zantac, and the Woods left the ship for a day of kayaking and snorkeling …

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