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SUNDAY, 10 SEPTEMBER 1989
You did the Mannequin Challenge again for old times' sake.
The standing still was flawless. The getting up took a team, a run-up and a noise you'd never made before.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Somebody, somewhere, is checking their phone hoping it's you. It's a debt collector.
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- Fortnite was free to play. It was not free to stop.
- You said "that's so me" about a horoscope. It also described 600 million other…
- The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday. Forty replies.…
- You say "it's not that deep" a lot. Your Notes app has 300 entries…
- Move fast and break things. You broke the coffee machine, the budget and your…
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