In exchange for efficiency, we’re all letting more and more genuine human contact slip from our daily lives. I remember being jubilant when online grocery delivery services arrived on the scene. I told Alice that they’d liberate us from all that time trekking back and forth to the store. But those grocery store visits were when we met friends in our neighborhood sorting through produce or trying to make sense of baby food options. They were where we got to know the clerks who helped us track down hard-to-find items, where we commiserated with fellow parents over crying children. These
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