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He remembered a news clipping from his childhood about a pile of discarded phones swept into a storm drain after a tech festival—an e-waste pile, angry and bright, then softening into rust. The N8's picture showed a riverbank at dusk and a pair of shoes abandoned at the waterline. The caption read: Forgiveness is when you leave something where it wants to be.

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