{"id":3877,"date":"2024-05-27T11:54:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T15:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rickollie.com\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2024-05-28T08:10:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:10:36","slug":"remembering-life-before-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rickollie.com\/es\/2024\/05\/27\/remembering-life-before-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Life Before the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

AHHH a grand time indeed it was<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A long, long time ago in a land far, far away there where children dancing in the streets …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… adults socializing in person with one another …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… and family’s dining together in peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then the internet came …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… and people reached out across the lands …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…after a short while the people we had fallen in love with on the internet began turning to ghosts …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… and our hearts were shattered to pieces with their disappearance …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… we began to wonder where to go heal from our loss …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… the same internet of course we turned …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… to fix our broken hearts only hoping to try anew …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… but by then we’d learned to ‘Never Love Again’ …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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