Back home last Friday night, I powered down the iPhone, got the kids to bed, and Joe and I talked, undistracted.

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Doing so undistracted by a thousand voices required strict electronic disengagement.

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The senators cited a Virginia Tech Transportation Institute study that found that truck drivers who texted while driving were 23 times more likely to crash or get into a near-accident than undistracted drivers.

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The childishness of the two of them had migrated somewhat to me, and, while I felt bad for them, their home, such as it was, taken from them, it was a relief to be back in my own mind, undistracted, uninvolved.

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