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Hugo Rifkind

Is that a bomb in your pocket? Or a spy? Or both?

13 October 2016

2:00 PM

13 October 2016

2:00 PM

Remember how much fun it used to be getting a new phone? I think of a friend a few years ago who was getting his first iPhone. He’d been on a waiting list, and he found out it was coming in on a Saturday when his newish girlfriend was coming to stay.

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