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WEDNESDAY, 15 MARCH 1978
Parenting is ten percent love
and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is. Then they leave and take both.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You say you're "an old soul". You're 21. The only old thing about you…
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- The award show ran four hours. The only winner was the advert break.
- You've got a side hustle, a passion project and a podcast. Combined monthly income:…
- Good things come to those who wait. You waited so long they went to…
- 2026 is the new 2016. Your knees did not get the memo. Your knees…
- The light at the end of the tunnel is someone asking, "Can you see…
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