Buy a mathing female connector from Radio Shack (or whoever) and solder it onto a wire. Open the lappy and solder the other end of the wire to the circuit board where the missing component would have been.
Close the lappy.
Enjoy.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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