So as I tell my friends, if you remember anything about this conversation, you will have a different brain than you started out with before the conversation.

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Back in 1998, I remember marveling at high school students choosing to text one another rather than make phone calls, updating their friends with their "status" and even taking pictures with their mobile phones.

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And, I would add, on the victims' friends and families, who tell us so movingly that they will remember.

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Instead, I remember my mom screening documentary films, jumping on the trampoline, going on power walks in the park with her friends.

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