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SUNDAY, 22 FEBRUARY 1981
The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday.
Forty replies. Four mention you. None kindly.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Start the week strong. Or at 9:14, camera off, pretending your face is a…
- Love is patient. Your partner is not, and has started a note on their…
- You're "in your villain era". You returned a lukewarm coffee and apologised four times.…
- Till death do us part. Not a vow. A fixed-term contract with an unspecified…
- Step outside your comfort zone. It's raining out there, everything costs more, and nobody…
- You've "romanticised your life". It's a candle, a croissant and a playlist called "main…
- You spent £400 on an ergonomic chair. You sit on it like a frog.…
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