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Eternal Hold

“Guy so much enjoyed talking on the phone,” remembers his sister, Diana. So when the 17-year-old boy from Ashkelon, Israel, was killed, the family erected a black marble tombstone in the shape of his cellular telephone. The phone’s “display” reads, “Hello, this is Guy, how are you doing?” He died in a car accident. (Reuters) ...No doubt because he was fiddling with his phone while driving.


Publication Date: 6 September 1998

This story is in True's book collection:
Volume 5, Page 32
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