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The Commits in the Sandbox



One night I dreamed a dream.
I had started early on the networking assignment with my partner.
Across the dark VM terminal flashed commits from my fork.
For each fork, I noticed two sets of commits in the repo,
One belonging to me and one to my partner.

After the last commit of my life flashed before me,
I feel into a very deep chemically induced sleep.
After being released from the hospital two weeks later,
I looked back at the commits in the repo.
I noticed that there was only one set of commits.

I walked in a daze to the computer lab
to find my partner
finishing up his machine learning assignment.
Suddenly, he looked up at me and blinked.

A tear came to my eye.

“My precious partner,” he said as he put his pencil down. "You are my group member and I would never leave you, even during our most difficult ARP tests.”

My jaw dropped.

“…Did you really code an entire router by yourself!?” I exclaimed.

He smiled.

“No, you were with me. For when you saw only one set of commits, it was then that I carried you.”

~
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