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TUESDAY, 13 OCTOBER 1998
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— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Being single means nobody steals your duvet. It also means the duvet is the…
- Your bio says "foodie, traveller, dreamer". You've been abroad once, and you still talk…
- Your out-of-office reply is the most confident thing you wrote all year. Nobody noticed…
- You started saying "oof" when you sit down. That's the countdown, out loud.
- They say sweat is weakness leaving the body. Yours has decided to stay.
- Unlimited holiday is a lovely policy. The company did the maths on your guilt,…
- You reinstalled Pokémon Go to get your steps up. Eleven kilometres later you'd caught…
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