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TUESDAY, 8 MARCH 1960
Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been quiet".
You weren't. You were just talking to nobody.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Every parent has a favourite child. It's whichever one isn't currently talking.
- You don't skip leg day. You skip every day. The legs know. The legs…
- Inside every older person is a younger person. The younger person is furious about…
- Running clears your head. Mostly of the idea that you're a runner.
- Your complaint has been escalated. It is now ignored by someone more senior.
- Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been…
- Parenting is ten percent love and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is.…
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Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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