I see the lines for phones and computers and marvel that my son would be so patient to wait in a line like that to connect with us when he was here in 2004.

我看到人们排着电话和电脑的长队，很惊讶我的儿子在2004年的时候能如此耐心地排队等着和我们联系。

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To do that then was really to be severed from your ties. To make a phone call I had to wait in line at a phone place and it was not easy.

尽管现在不会出现真正与其他任何人完全隔离的情况，那时候这么做确实是把自己与你的所有关系都断绝了，我打一个电话必须在一个电话亭排队，这真的不容易。

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And then do I wait in line again?

那我填好了之后还要再重新排队吗？

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But last winter I tried something new: instead of arriving at my destination and heading straight to the ski shop to fill out forms and wait-in line, I had the rental shop come to me, in the form of Black Tie Ski Rental Delivery.

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" It had been so long I walked away, and the girl I was with said, "Why did you wait in line so long if you weren't going to the movie?

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After claiming our intended purchase, we waited in line. (Have you ever seen two boys, ages seven and nine, wait in a line?) Not without a penchant for distraction myself, I wandered momentarily out of the cue and asked the boys to stay in line.

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