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Get a (Second) Life | Mac McClelland | Orion Magazine

I WOULDN’T NORMALLY KILL TIME conversing with a talking porpoise from Brazil. Nor would I join a guerrilla army that bombs Reebok stores, or purchase the services of a prostitute. Not in real life, anyway. But from what I’d read, little was impossible in Second Life , a 3-D web world whose users had created their very own unique and involved culture.

The day I created my Second Life, I was, I’ll admit, a little lonely. My roommates had gone out. Tired from work, I didn’t want to read, and we didn’t have cable, so I dragged a laptop onto the couch with me and opened up an internet browser.

Second Life’s online registration page greeted me...

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