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You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.

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Dave Eggers
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 12
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