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Dropping phones and fearing shattered screens

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When a mobile device slips from your grasp and lands face-down on the concrete, time essentially stops while you mentally calculate the cost of a replacement. The agonizing three-second pause before flipping it over to assess the structural damage is a modern form of torture that uniquely unites humanity in sheer, unadulterated dread.

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