Whatever Happened to Wallpaper?

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When was the last time you saw wallpaper? Seriously. The thought just popped into my head suddenly a few weeks ago as I was driving. “It’s been a long times since I’ve seen wallpaper.”

Wallpaper played a subtle but ubiquitous role in my childhood. It was, well, wallpaper. I remember the younger sister of my babysitter telling me how she was stuck in bed for days after a serious bout of appendicitis from…