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SUNDAY, 17 DECEMBER 2000
Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been quiet".
You weren't. You were just talking to nobody.
— Zack, unqualified
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- Some meetings could have been an email. You'll spend four years of your one…
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