Quitting social media gave me a new creed: only disconnect
Online, intimacy is imagined and mystery non-existent. It’s time to lose our smartphones and find ourselves again.
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Johanna Thomas-Corr
Johanna Thomas-Corr is a contributing writer to the New Statesman.
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