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TUESDAY, 10 MAY 1977
You say you're "an old soul".
You're 21. The only old thing about you is your phone's battery health.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- "It's just a phase" is a phrase you'll say for eighteen years. You're the…
- Make your money work for you. Yours quit in 2019. It works for your…
- Kids grow up so fast. Except between 5pm and bedtime, when time stops and…
- You said you're "booked and busy". Booked for a dentist you'll cancel. Busy rewatching…
- Your squad misses you, says the notification. Your squad is four strangers and a…
- Love is patient. Your partner is not, and has started a note on their…
- You said "we move". You've lived in the same bedroom since you were nine.
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Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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