I'm usually pretty good about remembering how long I've had any given tab open, give or take a few days, so I usually don't ram into this too often. I can go a few weeks, in fact.
Last night, I prepared a comment, hit the submit button, then cringed at the sight of the familiar pa... wait.
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I burst out in tears of sheer happiness. This. This is how it works.