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FRIDAY, 3 JULY 1998
Every relationship has a honeymoon period.
Yours was the walk from the bar to the taxi rank. She got in alone.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You "don't do small talk". You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails…
- "It's just a phase" is a phrase you'll say for eighteen years. You're the…
- Inside every older person is a younger person. The younger person is furious about…
- The council listened to your feedback. Then it did the thing anyway, but with…
- Your company's core values are printed on the wall. So nobody has to have…
- You received 40 fundraising texts today. Democracy needs $5 by midnight. Every midnight.
- Your alarm didn't wake you. The dread did. It doesn't have a snooze button.
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