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我的座机情结 　　不知道你是否曾有过这样的经历：一家人围在一部电话旁，等待着远方亲人的消息；电话簿中记下班里那个女孩的电话号码，忐忑拨通后发现接听的却不是她；买张电话卡冲进路边的电话亭，拨下那串背得烂熟的号码……这些曾是好几代人的共同回忆。但在几乎人手一部手机的今天，固定电话似乎成了家中的多余之物。 　　We’ve had the same landline for almost 40 years， since before anyone called it a “landline，” and it’s hard to give it up. Our phone number would be floating out there in space somewhere， whimpering like a dog that got left behind.2 And we have a cool number. It’s got two zeros in it， just like my childhood phone number， only without the stigma3. Nobody liked to dial zeros back in the 1950s， when we all had rotary phones4. It took too muc