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SATURDAY, 9 NOVEMBER 1957
Being a parent means eating cold crusts standing up and calling it dinner.
You'll eat standing up for eighteen years. Then sit down and forget how.
— Zack, unqualified
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- Everything happens for a reason. The reason is you. It's always been you.
- Running clears your head. Mostly of the idea that you're a runner.
- You flipped a water bottle on Monday morning just to feel something. It landed.…
- Opposites attract. Then they argue about the thermostat for forty years. Whoever outlives the…
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