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Sixteen-year-old helps retirees untangle the mysteries of the smartphone

In 1948, when Diane Howard was 4, she was learning to play ring-around-the-rosie.

In 2004, when Christian Magnuson was 4, he was teaching himself to install games on his dad's computer.

On Wednesday, Howard, 71, sat in a classroom where Christian, 16, was the teacher. His class: an introduction to smartphones for residents of Westminster at Lake Ridge, a retirement community in Prince William County, Virginia. Christian began volunteering at the facility a year ago, helping at Tuesday night sessions where people could come with tech questions.

He noticed that plenty of them had smartphones - o...

 

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