1,000 Words: Selfie kid

Oh, kid, you're a star. And also the symbol of a generation. Well played.

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Ryan McKenna, of Hingham, Mass., told the Pioneer Press I’ll never get this opportunity again in my whole life.’ I just went for it,” he said of his selfie with Justin Timberlake at the end of the halftime show.

His team lost the Super Bowl but he's got “like 36 Snapchats, like 21 DMs, and like 150 follower requests on Instagram,” he said.

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