This week my phone rang–an odd thing these days, if not from an increasingly small group of family members and work colleagues in a crisis. It was my Aunt, the email-hating, Internet-eschewing technophobe.

My first reaction, awfully, was that something was wrong. I get a phone call from a family member and I hold my breath and my chest tightens, and I wait to read the tone of the “hello” on the other end of the phone. And yet, it turns out no one died, no one was in the hospital, nothing was wrong.

She was simply wishing me a happy holiday. The old school way.

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