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In the study, 89 percent of Americans said that they interrupted their last social encounter by looking at a phone. And 82 percent of them said that it deteriorated the conversation.

Judy Woodruff

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Judy Woodruff
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 20
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Tulsa
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Judy Carline Woodruff
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