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Rachel Renee Russell presents the Dorp Diaries Podcast.

Brought to you by Simon and Chuster Audio. Episode 7.

Saturday, September 21st.

I think I'm suffering from nomophobia.

I know it sounds like some really nasty disease where you're covered from head to toe with itchy runny sores or something hideous like that.

But it's actually the irrational fear of not having a cell phone.

The worst thing about nomophobia is that it sometimes causes hallucinations and makes you do

insanely stupid things. I think I had an attack of this very debilitating disease when I went outside to get the mail.

I thought for sure I saw a tiny cute cell phone thingy that clips around your

ear lying on the sidewalk near our mailbox.

I was like, sweet, a free phone thingy, it's all good.

But when I took a closer look, it was kind of a bright peachy color.

I guessed that what I had found was actually a hearing aid.

Of course, I was devastated when I finally figured this out because I was really

pumped about having found a free phone thingy just lying there on the sidewalk.

I figured it probably belonged to Mrs Wallabanger,

the nice old lady who lives next door.

I suspect she is hard of hearing because whenever I say good morning to her she

answers with something random like thank you dear I got them for only a dollar

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