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Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable---those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic ... or those who have learned to master life without?

Anne Fortier

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Anne Fortier
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Novelist
Writer
DK
Order
Rely
Without
Useless
Need
Vulnerable
Logged
Needs
Master
Amateurish
Way
Machines
Slab
Life
Connected
Slabs
Masters
Plugged
Learned
Plastic

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