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Note : This story has not been updated for several years. My iPad use has grown over the years. In 2014 I was frustrated by its limitations , but had started experimenting with writing on an iPad with

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In January 2019, more than a year before the first vote would be cast in the 2020 Democratic primaries, the humor site McSweeney’s published an essay that was narrated by an unnamed husband and father