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FRIDAY, 27 MARCH 1992
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
- Skipping your daily coffee won't buy you a house. Nothing will. Have the coffee.
- Being single means nobody steals your duvet. It also means the duvet is the…
- Every parent has a favourite child. It's whichever one isn't currently talking.
- Micro-dating is a thirty-minute coffee to see if there's a spark. There wasn't. She…
- Your 47 open tabs are an accurate map of your inner life. Someone will…
- When life gives you lemons, it sends the invoice later. With interest.
- Somebody, somewhere, is checking their phone hoping it's you. It's a debt collector.
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