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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
- You received 40 fundraising texts today. Democracy needs $5 by midnight. Every midnight.
- You've "romanticised your life". It's a candle, a croissant and a playlist called "main…
- Dating apps let you meet hundreds of people. All of them are "just seeing…
- You'll leave your children everything you have. It's mostly a bread maker and an…
- Till death do us part. Not a vow. A fixed-term contract with an unspecified…
- You have 2,000 followers and nobody to help you move. Your audience is very…
- Some days you're the pigeon. Most days you're the statue, and nobody remembers who…
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Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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