Five years, three hard drives, three power cables, two dead batteries, a dozen trips across an ocean, four boyfriends, three states, half a dozen countries, one MA, half a PhD, several drive reformats, and quite a bit of gaff tape (and money) later, my Dell has been retired.

It served me well, but my current job doesn’t really cater to a computer that shuts down every two hours or so for no reason and/or gives me the blue screen of death.

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