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SATURDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 1956
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Three are jobs you'll never apply for, one's a recipe you'll never cook, and one is playing music from somewhere you can't find.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your back now goes out when you sneeze. It goes out more than you…
- Your Duolingo owl has stopped threatening you. It's not proud. It's given up. Even…
- Micro-dating is a thirty-minute coffee to see if there's a spark. There wasn't. She…
- You started saying "oof" when you sit down. That's the countdown, out loud.
- The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday. Forty replies.…
- You're "chronically online". Chronic means long-term. You've been online so long your eyes have…
- You don't have a type. You have a pattern. Your friends have a group…
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