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MONDAY, 22 JANUARY 2018
Your Duolingo owl has stopped threatening you.
It's not proud. It's given up. Even the bird has moved on.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- You are exactly where you're meant to be. That should frighten you more than…
- Hard work pays off eventually. It's paying off right now. Your boss just bought…
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- Your out-of-office reply is the most confident thing you wrote all year. Nobody noticed…
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