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To say the least that can be said about subjects like this one.

With all of this talk of phones and such:

I once read another scifi short story -- written in the early 60's, I believe -- about a young man in New York City who accidentally dialed a wrong phone number.  As it turned out, that particular phone number was being used by a group of hostile aliens (disguised as humans) who were intent upon  taking over the Earth.  Convinced that the unfortunate young man was somehow onto them, the aliens nabbed him and carried him off to torture -- demanding to know how he'd gotten their phone number.

In a brief introduction to the story, the author stated that the story had been fiction back when he'd written it.  However, several years later -- according to the author -- that sort of thing started happening in real life everyday in NYC......so he was glad that he'd moved away.

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