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Why we preserve digital ghosts

I keep my deceased husband's phone number in my contacts even though it has been reassigned to someone else and sometimes I almost call it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Technology preserves the infrastructure of relationship after relationship ends, creating false possibilities that both comfort and torment.

Worth thinking about

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