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From a friend, former student, and now fully reasonable \u2014 and right:<\/p>\n

Dear Scot,<\/p>\n
You may find this hard to believe after my ragging on you and my son with your Macs, but yesterday I bought a MacBook Pro.\u00a0 I got tired of my machine crashing, not being able to connect to wireless, running really, \u00a0really slow, etc.\u00a0 So many of my students have gone to Mac and have told me nothing but good things that I finally took the plunge.\u00a0 You, my friend, were one of the first influences on me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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