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TUESDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER 2000
Your desk plant is the only thing in the office still growing.
When you leave, someone will fight over the plant.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- You have an eleven-step skincare routine. Your sleep schedule has none. The serum is…
- You flipped a water bottle on Monday morning just to feel something. It landed.…
- You deleted the app "for good". That was 40 minutes ago. You've reinstalled it…
- He vanished for five months, then texted "haha so true" like he'd just popped…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
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