For the first 18 years of my life, everything was pleasantly uncomplicated. Our address was Route 2, Sterling, Illinois. No further details were needed for the mail to be delivered to our house. The other important number involved our telephone. You could just ring “central” and a real live person said “Number Please.” Then phones proliferated and soon we were 947-ring-3. This distingui...
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