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Adam Gopnik: I Didn’t Know What ‘LOL’ Meant

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Writer Adam Gopnik learned Internet chat from his son, Luke, and quickly caught on to such lingo as ‘brb’ and ‘gtg.’ But he didn’t get the hang of ‘LOL’—to disastrous effects. Read Adam’s funny and heartwarming story, originally a broadcast on the radio show The Moth, excerpted from the new book The Moth: 50 True Stories, out Tuesday.

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The story I want to tell you is a simple story about myself and my son Luke. Some of you may have read about him over the years.

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