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A ‘social experiment’ lets people from Texas and San Francisco randomly connect on a payphone

Veterans are trained to put everyone else first. What happens when they prioritize themselves?

A new hopeful payphone project invites ‘Boomers’ and ‘Zoomers’ to connect one conversation at a time