L.T. member named Britnee Brown, who has been with the company for a little more than a year, took a call that was a record five hours, twenty-five minutes, and thirty-one seconds long, from a woman on the East Coast interested in Masai Barefoot Technology shoes, which purport to mimic supposedly salubrious barefoot-on-the-beach walking with curved rubber platforms.

NEWYORKER: Happy Feet

Thirty-one-year-old Britney looks a great deal different from twenty-six-year-old Britney.

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The author once made a list of all the pieces he had written in maybe twenty or thirty years, and then put a check mark beside each one whose subject related to things he had been interested in before he went to college.

NEWYORKER: Progression