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I thought of him most recently while watching Mark Zuckerberg deliver an hour-long presentation on Facebook’s rebrand-it is now called Meta-and its newfound focus on building the “metaverse”: a vast and integrated virtual world. It is hard to know what anyone else really wants, and I think of this man often. FarmVille, our host confirmed pleasantly-it was a game, a farming simulator, played by tens of millions of people on Facebook-before asking if we might be interested in some eggs. The dog nosed around in the vegetable beds. Through the picture window, we could see mist rising from the evergreens. “FarmVille?” I asked, half awake, spreading honey over a slice of toast. He was glad to have more time at home with his wife and their dog. One morning over breakfast, conversation shifted to our host’s retirement. It sat on a lush, wild sprawl of farmland that immediately inspired fantasies of leaving San Francisco and our tech jobs, foraging for mushrooms, administering to septic systems, and turning over soil. The house was old, beautiful, and cozily laden with objects that signalled domestic inertia.
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Years ago, while on vacation in the Northwest, my husband and I rented a room in the home of a middle-aged couple, one of whom had recently retired.