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SUNDAY, 27 OCTOBER 1996
Inside every older person is a younger person.
The younger person is furious about the knees.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You're "on a gap year". It's your third.
- Monday is a perfectly normal day. You've got about two thousand more of them.…
- You started a podcast with your mate “for a laugh”. Episode 31 has nine…
- Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call. With a waitlist, a…
- You have a "comfort show". You've watched it 11 times. You've seen your friends…
- Nobody has ever said "thank goodness it's Monday". Except a manager, and he meant…
- You've "been meaning to" for three years. The thing you meant to do has…
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