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OLD-FASHIONED KNOW-HOW
The New Yorker
|April 15, 2024
Listen, kid, when you’ve been through the things I’ve been through, you know some things about things.
And those things . . . Well, they’re the things that put things in perspective. That’s the problem with kids these days: too many things, not enough good old-fashioned, homegrown, cage-free know-how. And, trust me, I know how.
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