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TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY 1962
Your bio says "foodie, traveller, dreamer".
You've been abroad once, and you still talk about the airport.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You received 40 fundraising texts today. Democracy needs $5 by midnight. Every midnight.
- The house will be tidy again one day. The day they move out. Tidy,…
- Every company now has an AI assistant. It's the only member of staff nobody's…
- You have an eleven-step skincare routine. Your sleep schedule has none. The serum is…
- Opposites attract. Then they argue about the thermostat for forty years. Whoever outlives the…
- Somebody, somewhere, is checking their phone hoping it's you. It's a debt collector.
- The loot box has a 0.5% chance of something good. The studio has a…
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