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TUESDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 2020
Your out-of-office reply is the most confident thing you wrote all year.
Nobody noticed you were gone.
— Zack, unqualified
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- "Per my last email" is the closest you'll ever get to a duel. You'll…
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