Would your life be better without a cell phone?
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Gary Sernovitz doesn't have a cell phone.
"For the last two decades, I have spent 83 percent of my waking hours enjoying the freedom of not owning a cellphone, 5 percent feeling smug about it, 2 percent in situations in which a phone would have been awfully convenient and 10 percent fielding incredulous questions," he wrote for the Wall Street Journal. "But in a few weeks, I will buy a phone. I am scared. I am afraid of losing a small part of my identity."
Today's Question: Would your life be better without a cell phone?
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