Evening. A darkened room. Figures huddle close together. There is a sudden flash, a great white ball of light. Then a wavy line. Then a dot. Then nothing.
"I feel like someone is dead."
The occasion is not an atomic disaster, but the breakdown of the family television set in prime time. The pitiful line about someone being dead was actually spoken to an interviewer on television viewing habits, along with such others as, "I nearly lost my mind. The days were so long," and "It was terrible. We did nothing. My husband...
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