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TUESDAY, 2 AUGUST 1988
Your financial advisor is a spreadsheet you opened once in January.
It's been screaming quietly ever since.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Don't settle. Your standards already have. They didn't tell you.
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- "It's just a phase" is a phrase you'll say for eighteen years. You're the…
- You "work best under pressure". You don't. You just only work under pressure.
- Start the week strong. Or at 9:14, camera off, pretending your face is a…
- You said you're "built different". You're built the same. Just assembled worse.
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