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Tears for a post office on deathbed

By Peter Wanyonyi

Back when Internet was just a bunch of cables in a university laboratory somewhere in the West and real telephones with painted booths and clanging ringtones ruled, having a family member “working abroad” was the height of prestige in society.

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