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THURSDAY, 17 OCTOBER 1996
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
- Your savings account isn't empty. It's a memorial.
- You'll leave your children everything you have. It's mostly a bread maker and an…
- Age is just a number. So is your cholesterol, and it's climbing faster than…
- Your fitness app's AI coach called a four-minute walk "incredible progress". It said the…
- You've been "circling back" since March. At this point you're space debris.
- You've "romanticised your life". It's a candle, a croissant and a playlist called "main…
- Opposites attract. Then they argue about the thermostat for forty years. Whoever outlives the…
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