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Fixing, it turned out, was not only a technical verb but a moral one in that market. To fix a device was to restore its purpose; to fix a broken promise between people was to rearrange the world so it made sense again. Farang thought about his own misalignments — the years he had banded together with people who had needed him and the times he had been needed and failed to answer. Each repair he made was a small attempt to rebalance a life that oscillated between anchoring and drifting.