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Life in the \u201cdigital\u00a0now\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nOne year ago, Abha Dawesar was living in blacked-out Manhattan post-Sandy, scrounging for power to connect. As a novelist, she was struck by this metaphor: Have our lives now become fixated on the drive to digitally connect, while we miss out on what\u2019s real?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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