An hour past midnight and I was just a page away from finishing my term paper; due the next day. I’m sure it would have been a great paper but Microsoft Word had other designs at that moment — namely crashing and taking my paper with it. When I finally loaded my “recovered” file, I found that not much had been recovered. My 10 pages of hard work had turned into 300 pages of random gibberish, the occasional asterisk, and a strange sentence that was either from my first draft or just my Mac taunt
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