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Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

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Susan Orlean
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 31
Journalist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Glow
Fabulous
Technology
Modern
Easy
Everything
Dazzled
Sometimes
Gilded
Time
Marvel

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