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Each week I am forced to revise my original opinion that Facebook is a great innovation for keeping people in touch, to believing that it is merely a canvas for members to act out strange, unresolved conflicts and desires.

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Emily Yoffe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 15
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