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So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.
Will Self
Will Self
Will Self
Born: Sep 26, 1961

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Phones, Become, Own, Second-Hand, Our, Invariably, Come, Discarded, Mobile, Mobile Phones, Now, Card, Image

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