Please help a 39 year old mom out ~ I need to get into the whole "Texting" thing. Help me choose a phone?

Question by Stephanie: Please help a 39 year old mom out ~ I need to get into the whole "Texting" thing. Help me choose a phone?
Okay, so I'm not into the whole "texting" thing but I'm starting to date again and it seems like EVERYONE is texting these days (even the 49 year old man I'd like to get to know better) and I feel like the biggest dork that I don't text. When I had my daughter three years ago, I sort of made her my focus and didn't keep up with the technology as it was advancing. Right now, my cell phone plan is basic, minutes only, and is with Nextel and still like a basic flip phone style. I am not tied to a contract with Nextel anymore so I can go to a new provider.

So now

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