After thinking for a moment, I typed the simple message ‘Thank you for everything’ and added a heart symbol. Then I pressed send. My old phone rang immediately and I checked my messages. Of course it was the text I had just sent. ‘Great. My message reached you. I really wanted to say thanks for all you have done,’ I said to my old phone. Then I closed it with a click. A few minutes later, I opened my old phone and was surprised to find that the screen was blank. No matter what button I pressed, the screen did not respond. My phone, which had never broken since the day I first got it, had gone
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