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SUNDAY, 6 JANUARY 2002
You say you're "an old soul".
You're 21. The only old thing about you is your phone's battery health.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Wildflowering means letting the relationship grow naturally, with no timeline. It has the growth…
- Youth is wasted on the young. You wasted yours too. Old age is next,…
- Micro-dating is a thirty-minute coffee to see if there's a spark. There wasn't. She…
- Your resting heart rate is excellent. It's had nothing else to do.
- Your chatbot calls every one of your ideas "a really insightful question". Zack has…
- Treat yourself, they said. You did. Four times before lunch. Your pension felt every…
- Romance isn't dead. It just stopped waiting for a reply to your "hey" from…
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