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What I learned about Tik-Tok and 'emotional vampirism'

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Apr 01, 2024
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I guess I’m old enough, now, to look at youth and the young as a foreign country. My own memories of coming of age seem woefully outdated. I’m reminded of this every time I speak to groups of students who, with every passing year, appear increasingly confused when I go on about what it was like to be freshman in college…

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