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Article: Friends, lovers, facialists ... editing your address book can be satisfying, sentimental and saddening all at once. Here, Carrie Fisher takes us on her own trip through the pages of her little black book.(OPINION)
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- Harper's Bazaar
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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The thing is, address books are becoming more or less obsolete. Today if I forget my address book, it's no real tragedy, as long as I have my cell phone and my computer. But if it weren't for my address book, I wouldn't have known that I knew 28 dead people. How can you take people out of your address book just because they died? It seems like they should have to do a lot more than that to lose their positions.
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Nowadays, if I meet someone new, I can enter the numbers on my cell, then delete them should the unforeseen occur: a death, a divorce, a relationship that didn't take or suddenly went wrong. No matter: room for a newer, ...