Interesting, thanks! It's quite amazing how dependant on electricity and clean running water our Western society has become. I read a lot of 19th century literature, and the trouble people had to go through back then to achieve the simplest things (like getting a message to someone who lived on the other side of the town, or showing someone who came visiting where (s)he had to sleep) is quite astonishing by today's standards. They had to spend so much time on things like that, and on waiting for answers! Life is so much faster now. I sometimes wish I lived in that era, because I think there were not as many stressed people back then as there are now.
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