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[quote=Anonymous]We had the rule that if you called home from a long distance location, you'd call collect. A live operator would place the call and ask if they would accept. They'd say no and call you back to save collect charges. I started college in 1972. Long distance calling was a serious matter when I was growing up, and I had only made a couple of them in my life, with my parent's permission (you'd tell the operator if you were calling station to station or person to person). Somewhere in that time direct dialing became available, but the first time I called my parents using that I honestly did not know how to do it (couldn't do it from the college dorm, this was on a college break at a friend's house in CA). I remember racking up some huge long distance bills when I was first living along far away from the friends I was closest to from college. But of course, we wrote letters! [/quote]
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