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2012: The end of life as we’ve known it

 
 

 
 

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Forget the Mayan calendar. We saw some real endings in 2012. In the book of life, the year was a major transition chapter.

These are some of the things that we lost and our kids may never know:

Print media: Newsweek’s final print edition hit newsstands on Christmas Eve featuring a hashtag on the cover, but the print edition was scooped by the 80-year-old magazine’s Twitter account, which released a shot of the cover the day before — proving once again that print no longer matters.

Read the column at MomsMiami.com.

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