I’m so glad there was no internet when I was growing up. Sure, it would have made writing a term paper on the Louisiana Purchase easier. But on the other hand, when I did something embarrassing, no one was posting or texting a photo of it around for everyone I knew to see. We ruined each other’s lives face-to-face, with gossip and slander, like civilized people.

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