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hanging up

C. A. McLaren

escaping the Phone Zone

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It’s my nine month dumbphone-iversary. I could have gestated a whole analog baby! I didn’t. Any birth or rebirth has been purely symbolic.

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1878, Marie Cassatt

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