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Torchlight

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42. I was stuck to the false pride of my old flip phone until last summer.

Tue Feb 22, 2022, 04:33 PM

Feb 2022

Finally upgraded to a smart phone and am the happier for it.

Do I need a smart phone? No more than I needed my flip phone the past fifteen years. Or the second land line I had in my first place 30 years ago. Or the one land line my family had when I was growing up in the seventies and early eighties.

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I was stuck to the false pride of my old flip phone until last summer. Torchlight Feb 2022 #42