After the advent of the Model T there must have been a period during which householders occasionally would peer wistfully at the back of the barn where their once shining carriages now sat collecting dust.

Thus do I find myself gazing, nostalgically and with preposterous fondness, at the squat, battered, green leather ring binder that has, for 20 years, kept my life in order.

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