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Everything is danger, but we pretend that it's not.

Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 7
Essayist
Literary Critic
Sociologist
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Phoenix
Arizona
Pretend
Danger
Everything

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