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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to memorize important information.

While we can save so much electronically these days, you don't know for sure

when that might be available. Having at least a few things memorized can make life a little calmer

when things don't go as planned. I am sure many people my age still have our childhood friend's phone numbers

memorized. If you wanted to call your friend, you had to actually call the number. And even if the

digits were taped to the wall above your phone, you got used to pressing them.

Now, since we store all of our contacts in our phones, we don't memorize people's numbers.

This leads to the funny situation where you have your childhood friend's number memorized,

even if you haven't seen this person in three decades.

But you don't know your own kid's cell phone number.

And most of the time, you won't need to know it.

But can you say you would never need it?

Maybe someday you will lose your phone and need to reach a friend or family member.

The stranger who lends you her phone isn't going to have any of these numbers in her contacts. It would be good if you had them memorized. So pick a few

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