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This under-two-minute video from 2017 traces a quick history of the first ten years of the iPhone and lists all the things it “helped destroy.”
What’s your relationship with this device, whether you’ve ever owned one or not?
Use the comments to tell us about a memory or experience from your own life that the iPhone inspires — or use your imagination to write the opening of a short story or poem starring the device.
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