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Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.
Jami Attenberg
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I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners gone?' - but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself.
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Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?
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An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.
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I check my phone first thing when I wake up in the morning. I usually take it up with me to bed so it's on the floor next to the bed, although not actually in bed with me, because I really do not want to be the person who sleeps with their phone.
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My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them for it.
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Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself.
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There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.
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Maybe I wouldn't hit three fast food restaurants in a day, but I could hit one in a day. I try not to do that.
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My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.
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Cooking skills aside, my mother is an exceptional nurturer.
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Does everything in this life begin and end with Judy Blume? Perhaps.
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