Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a…

Susan Orlean
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Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone. ✨ Communication Fatigue by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2011.
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