What do you wish you could tell someone?

What do you wish you could tell someone?
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To my fellow Ask-publicers, to stop complaining about the auto spell-correction on the iPhone. At least you have an iPhone on which to Ask-public. I’m stuck on a Blackberry that’s so 2003.
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