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between the ages of nine and thirty

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Published: Oct 11, 2016

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to all of you, your backwards-hat, straightforward-lipped, new-fangled old-school kids, to all the screen-sucked, social-absorbed, drama-rich children between the ages of nine and thirty, I’ve had some time saved away, like the five dollar bills in the old tissue box in my bookcase, to think about all this stuff that you’re doing. bring me back to tape players, because I wish I still had mine-- it was green and covered in stickers. I had a CD player, too, when those came out, and my sister shared it with me, but would skip to the next song before the one playing was over, and I hated that. everything is in files now, like cabinets that fit in our pockets. like the universe before the big bang, fitting on the head of a pin. picking up a book is old-school, a cliché for the hipsters and nerds who haven’t moved on or don’t care to. fresh waves of flavors new and news to you on every page with facebook, or is that yesterday, when all my troubles seemed to fade away... I love typewriters--watching how they work, their mechanics. take time and some change and save it, then use it to think free of the files and pages; don’t forget the mechanics of things, because some...some will never change.