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On lost souls... and mobile phones

A Point of View

CHAPTER

Our Souls Live on in Our Phones

We have so poured ourselves into our devices that the devices, paradoxically, are the one place where we can still picture ourselves as selves. Our distant ancestors used confession booths. Eighteenth century people use their diaries. We all need some small pox to hold our fears and desires as the winds of the world threaten to blow us away. Somehow, when you see a name not my own illuminating your screen, you'll know that i'm alive.

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