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THURSDAY, 7 JULY 1977
Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been quiet".
You weren't. You were just talking to nobody.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- Your desk plant is the only thing in the office still growing. When you…
- Inside every older person is a younger person. The younger person is furious about…
- Love is patient. Your partner is not, and has started a note on their…
- “Just one more game” of FIFA was the most dishonest sentence in the English…
- The council listened to your feedback. Then it did the thing anyway, but with…
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