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It is true that one can perhaps keep things too clean and sanitary. Fanatically tidy people never build up immunities to anything and are constantly pale and drippy and generally miserable with some sort of ailment. I, on the other hand, believe dust to be the finest of fine furniture preservatives. For the record, I am disgustingly healthy and almost never ill with anything.
Now, back to the subject of your ailing keyboard: It's the period that refuses to type, you say? Well, one solution would be to recast your sentences to such complexity that fewer periods will be required.
In those now rare instances for which a period and nothing but a period will do, type a colon or a comma. To save time, take care to remember their placements in said document. Print the document.
After printing the document, go back through it and locate the commas and/or colons which you wish to turn into periods. Attack these errant punctuation symbols with White-Out or a very sharp razor, meticulously removing everything that prevents them from appearing to be a period. Presto! In the words of the esteemed Rube Goldberg, "What could be simpler?"
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