It was a good computer, given to them on their sixteenth birthday, a customary coming-of-age gift. It had a cream-colored frame and a pleasingly crisp screen, and Dex had only needed to repair it five times in the years that it had traveled in their clothes.

A reliable device built to last a lifetime, as all computers were.

every time i think about my phone vs this quote, i have a serious urge to burst into tears :tears:

from "a psalm for the wild-built" by becky chambers