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SUNDAY, 11 JULY 1999
The in-office lunch is optional.
The man with the clipboard and no sandwich is writing down who didn't come. Then who did, but looked replaceable.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Kids grow up so fast. Except between 5pm and bedtime, when time stops and…
- Your toddler has stronger opinions about sock seams than you've had about anything since…
- You call your mum "for advice". You call her for the Netflix password.
- You started saying "oof" when you sit down. That's the countdown, out loud.
- The light at the end of the tunnel is someone asking, "Can you see…
- Not all who wander are lost. You are. The map gave up.
- The in-office lunch is optional. The man with the clipboard and no sandwich is…
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