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Day 1: I didn't cry. I sat in front of the black screen. Tried to turn it on. Again. Again. Nothing. Day 2: I cried. I called IT. They said they'd try. Not "we will." "We'll try." Day 3: I started writing. One page. It was terrible. I wrote it anyway. Day 4: Another page. Still terrible...

I stopped crying. I stopped being angry. I started writing. I'm not trying to remember what I wrote. I was attached to those words. Those sentences. Those paragraphs. They're gone. I'm writing new ones. I'm using the notes I took before I lost it. I had a notebook. Handwritten. Research...

I know. Everyone says back up your work. I didn't. My laptop just stopped. Black screen. Nothing. My paper was on the desktop. Not in the cloud. Not on a drive. Just there. Now it's not. I called IT. They said they might be able to recover it. Might. In two weeks. My deadline is one week. Six...