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THURSDAY, 1 APRIL 2004
Dating apps let you meet hundreds of people.
All of them are "just seeing where it goes". It goes nowhere. It went nowhere with you twice.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You got a houseplant to "take care of something". It died. Even the plant…
- Somebody, somewhere, is checking their phone hoping it's you. It's a debt collector.
- The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday. Forty replies.…
- You said you're "built different". You're built the same. Just assembled worse.
- You don't have a spending problem. You have an income problem, and it's terminal.
- Inside every older person is a younger person. The younger person is furious about…
- You've "been meaning to" for three years. The thing you meant to do has…
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