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Recently, I Have Come To Assume That Any Call To My Landline Is From A Telemarketer Or An Automated Call From Terminex, Letting Me Know That Our Regularly Scheduled Pest-extermination Service Will Occur On Its Regular Schedule. So I Usually Ignore My Home Phone.

-Susan Orlean

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Recently, I Have Come To Assume That

Susan Orlean

Recently, I Have Come To Assume That Any Call To My Landline Is From A Telemarketer Or An Automated Call From Terminex, Letting Me Know That Our Regularly Scheduled Pest-extermination Service Will Occur On Its Regular Schedule. So I Usually Ignore My Home Phone.

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