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THURSDAY, 19 OCTOBER 1978
Being a parent means eating cold crusts standing up and calling it dinner.
You'll eat standing up for eighteen years. Then sit down and forget how.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Core collaboration days started as Tuesday. They now include Wednesday, Thursday, a Friday that's…
- You swore you'd never sound like your parents. You just said "because I said…
- You can do anything you set your mind to. Your mind has set itself…
- You "romanticise studying". You've filmed it, lit it and soundtracked it. You haven't studied.
- Every subscription you forgot about still thinks of you monthly. That's more than your…
- Growing old is mandatory. Growing up was optional. You ticked "later". This is later.…
- You said "it's giving" about your own life. It's giving overdraft. It's giving rent…
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