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FRIDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2015
Micro-dating is a thirty-minute coffee to see if there's a spark.
There wasn't. She knew in four minutes. You paid for both.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You quit your job to "find yourself". Found you. You're on your parents' sofa,…
- Your bio says "foodie, traveller, dreamer". You've been abroad once, and you still talk…
- "It's just a phase" is a phrase you'll say for eighteen years. You're the…
- You've been "about to start the gym" since January. It's October. The gym has…
- The best time to start saving was twenty years ago. The second-best time was…
- The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday. Forty replies.…
- The spark never fades. It gets downgraded to bin bags, then to a joint…
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