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An Open Letter to the Duracell Battery Company

Apologies are owed

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Marc Schmatjen
Jan 14, 2026
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Dear Duracell,

You have let me down, not only as a battery consumer, but as a father, and you owe some people apologies.

This past weekend, my whole family was together and we were changing the battery in my mom’s Subaru key fob. (Only one of us was changing the battery – we did not all get together for that express purpose.)

Son Number Two, being nineteen…

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