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SATURDAY, 20 DECEMBER 1969
Kids grow up so fast.
Except between 5pm and bedtime, when time stops and you age a decade.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your toddler has stronger opinions about sock seams than you've had about anything since…
- Beach body ready? The beach has been ready for four billion years. It isn't…
- Your friends' group chat went quiet. It didn't. They made a new one. Same…
- Your alarm didn't wake you. The dread did. It doesn't have a snooze button.
- It's not a career ladder. It's a hamster wheel. The hamster has a LinkedIn…
- Good things come to those who wait. You waited so long they went to…
- Your chatbot calls every one of your ideas "a really insightful question". Zack has…
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