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Not electronically—physically. Decades of dust and a previous owner’s rage had fused the keys into strange clumps. Eliot peeled back the dust cover and read the faded labels on the keys:

The world didn’t reboot with a bang.

gg oo oo dd bb yy ee

Q Q W W E E R R T T Y Y U U I I O O P P (Every key was doubled. Q and Q next to each other. Two Ws. Two Es.) qqwweerrttyyuuiioopp aassddffgghhjjkkll zzxxccvvbbnnmm

End.

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