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SATURDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 1969
You're "on a gap year".
It's your third.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Sleep when the baby sleeps. Also pay the mortgage when the baby pays the…
- Opposites attract. Then they argue about the thermostat for forty years. Whoever outlives the…
- Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. They were picked first. You're what was left.
- Don't settle. Your standards already have. They didn't tell you.
- Every company now has an AI assistant. It's the only member of staff nobody's…
- You asked the chatbot if you were a good parent. It said "absolutely" before…
- You quit your job to "find yourself". Found you. You're on your parents' sofa,…
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