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FRIDAY, 20 JUNE 1969
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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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your backlog is a library of things you were going to enjoy. It is…
- Your desk plant is the only thing in the office still growing. When you…
- Both parties say this is the most important election of your lifetime. They said…
- You started saying "oof" when you sit down. That's the countdown, out loud.
- You moneymaxxed so hard this month you earned $4.80 in cashback. It cost three…
- Monday is a perfectly normal day. You've got about two thousand more of them.…
- Life is short. A measurable chunk of it will be spent in the post…
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Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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