Brand new and the hinge has randomly started to seperate

I bought this computer on December 22 and have been SO careful with it. Randomly a couple weeks ago it started splitting at the hinge. It has been getting progressively worse. I'm shipping it back to apple for them to fix tomorrow I'm just curious has anyone else heard of this happening for no reason?
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Hi, jfg. No one else has posted any report of a failure even remotely like yours, to my knowledge. It looks as if someone opened the display with the computer sitting on a desktop and something, perhaps a pen or pencil, got pinched between the lower rim of the Aluminum display back panel and the left rear corner of the lower case as the display approached its full-open position, prying the display back panel away from the rest of the display assembly. I don't know, but I imagine that panel is glued, rather than screwed in place. Did the glass not break? If not, that's amazing.
I'll be interested to hear what Apple says about it, if anything.
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