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He got his first cell phone in '98 and texted random numbers. The only response became his wife.

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Summary
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61% Informative

Donovan Shears of Coventry, England , got his first mobile phone for his 18th birthday in 1998 .

He texted random numbers randomly and didn't think anything of it.

One person responded to his text, an 18-year-old girl named Kirsty , 100 miles away.

Six months after the first text, she drove to Coventry to meet Donovan in person.

VR Score

61

Informative language

61

Neutral language

14

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

30

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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no external sources

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