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Speaker 1: There's a makeshift phone booth here along the Somerville Community

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Speaker 1: Path near Lexington Park. The rotary phone inside has no

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Speaker 1: dial tone when you pick it up, no wires or cables.

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Speaker 1: It's technically non functional, but it does have a function.

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Speaker 1: It's a physical prop called a wind phone that someone

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Speaker 1: can use to talk to a loved one who's passed away.

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Speaker 2: It's actually very like close to me because my dad's

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Speaker 2: quite sick right now, and so the idea of having

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Speaker 2: a moment where you can talk to somebody after they've

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Speaker 2: gone is really special.

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Speaker 1: Hatred McDonald of Somerville loves the idea of a wind phone,

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Speaker 1: which grew in popularity following the twenty eleven tsunami in Japan.

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Speaker 1: Since then, the concept has spread worldwide, with ten wind

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Speaker 1: phones now located in Massachusetts.

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Speaker 3: It's like a way sort of bridge that divide in Somerville.

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Speaker 1: James Rojas w b Z, Boston Snooze Radio