He'd almost hit somebody with his car that day.

I could feel the adrenaline kind of dripping through my phone.

He was like, you know, it was so close.

I swirved around the last second.

I'm telling everyone I know.

And I was just wondering to myself, like,

who else is he telling besides this invisible girlfriend?

When your life flashes before your eyes,

these days, what do you do?

You reach for your phone.

You call your loved one.

You text your husband, your wife, your mom, your sister.

Or in this case, you text a temp

who's pretending to be your girlfriend.

You're invisible girlfriend.

I'm a new summer ody.

You're a guide to this accelerating world and note to self.

We all need someone to tell or text our stories to,

even if they're paid to text back.

Last week, we talked to NPR's education correspondent

Oni Cominets about how we can use our screens

to connect, not disengage with our kids.

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