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The cracked screen of my Samsung finally went dark during a crucial client call, taking three years of contacts hostage. That metallic taste of panic flooded my mouth as I stared at the corpse of my device - 487 connections gone. Suppliers in Barcelona, investors in Toronto, even my nephew's new college number vanished into silicon purgatory. My fingers trembled against the replacement phone's sterile surface, dreading the weeks of reconstruction ahead.

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