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If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard.
Virginia Heffernan
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Virginia Heffernan
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 8
Journalist
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Hanover
New Hampshire
Virginia P. Heffernan
Virginia Page Heffernan
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People act as if the internet will never die, that the Cloud will never die. In the face of that, much of human civilization, including our human bodies, seem so defective and mortal and constantly fading. Our lifespan is 80 years, 90 years if we're lucky, and that's a drop in the bucket compared to how long we think the internet will live.
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I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, God always refused to become glorious, instead stubbornly remaining plain, a headache, a sorrowful knot of language.
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