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THURSDAY, 18 DECEMBER 1997
Every great company started in a garage.
Yours will end there too. The car's been living outside since launch.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Growing old is mandatory. Growing up was optional. You ticked "later". This is later.…
- Your birthday cake now needs a risk assessment. The candles are outnumbering the years…
- Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been…
- "We should get dinner sometime" is a beautiful promise. One of you will die…
- Sleep when the baby sleeps. Also pay the mortgage when the baby pays the…
- You quit your job to "find yourself". Found you. You're on your parents' sofa,…
- Parenting is ten percent love and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is.…
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