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PROVO — When a buzzing smartphone started to feel like a weight she couldn't put down, Grace Freeman bought a flip phone on a dare.
Freeman, a full-time seminary teacher, had joked with her students about trading in her iPhone. They laughed and said she would "never survive."
"I just bought one right then," she said. "I got it in December, and I wanted to do it until the end of the year. And then after I finished like the first three weeks, I was like, I'm gonna do this till spring break. And

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