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This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.
This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.
Approximate author period: c. 1938 AD · modern
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- Joyce Carol Oates
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- Approximate author period: c. 1938 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1938; activity date not established; Wikidata Q217557, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217557 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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