Cary realized that repairing software was sometimes like stitching small wounds in a city’s memory; pieces of people's lives were embedded in code and file names, waiting for someone to restore them. He began to treat Winuv not as hardware to be resuscitated but as a ledger of human reaches for companionship.
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