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FRIDAY, 8 NOVEMBER 1968
"It's just a phase" is a phrase you'll say for eighteen years.
You're the phase they'll describe to a therapist.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- No pain, no gain. You chose neither. Your heart has noted it in your…
- You call it "quiet quitting". Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody…
- Quality family time: everyone on a different screen in the same room, harvested by…
- You said "this is my year". You've said it since 2019. The years have…
- Love yourself first. Someone has to, and nobody else applied.
- Wealth is built slowly. Debt is built quickly. And it's hereditary.
- You got a houseplant to "take care of something". It died. Even the plant…
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