I spent 72 hours as a neo-Luddite — here’s what happened when I swapped out my iPhone for face-to-face connection

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A few weekends ago, I was posed with a challenge that made me clutch my zillennial pearls: a request from my editors to lock my phone away for 72 hours. Having grown up with the first generation that hardly remembers life without cellphones (and yes, I know that many people who didn’t will roll their eyes), like most late-20-somethings I know, I treat my phone as nothing less than a bonus appendage: a home-office, social hub, finance tracker and news desk rolled into one pocket-sized digital