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THURSDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 1982
The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday.
Forty replies. Four mention you. None kindly.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You "can't do mornings". You also can't do afternoons, evenings or emails.
- Your bio says "foodie, traveller, dreamer". You've been abroad once, and you still talk…
- The best time to start saving was twenty years ago. The second-best time was…
- Your friends' group chat went quiet. It didn't. They made a new one. Same…
- You wanted a mini-me. You got a tiny negotiator who has never once lost…
- You're "on a gap year". It's your third.
- Inside every older person is a younger person. The younger person is furious about…
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