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THURSDAY, 24 JULY 1975
The retirement age goes up a year every time you check.
It's not a finish line. It's a horizon.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You've "been meaning to" for three years. The thing you meant to do has…
- You've been "about to start the gym" since January. It's October. The gym has…
- Youth is wasted on the young. You wasted yours too. Old age is next,…
- A budget is a list of things you're about to do anyway. Written down…
- Mistakes were made. Nobody made them. They just happened, like weather.
- You don't have a spending problem. You have an income problem, and it's terminal.
- Being single means nobody steals your duvet. It also means the duvet is the…
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