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WEDNESDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 1989
Your friends' group chat went quiet.
It didn't. They made a new one. Same name, one fewer person.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You're not broke. You're pre-rich. The "pre" is permanent.
- Monday has its own support group. The group is everyone. The meetings are also…
- You said you're "built different". You're built the same. Just assembled worse.
- When life gives you lemons, it sends the invoice later. With interest.
- Listen to your body. It's asking for a biscuit and a lie-down. It's been…
- Your out-of-office reply is the most confident thing you wrote all year. Nobody noticed…
- Clear-coding means stating your intentions up front. Hers was "I have a hard stop…
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