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WEDNESDAY, 31 AUGUST 2022
Your friends' group chat went quiet.
It didn't. They made a new one. Same name, one fewer person.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Romance isn't dead. It just stopped waiting for a reply to your "hey" from…
- "Let's take this offline" means "let's never speak of this again." That's also the…
- He vanished for five months, then texted "haha so true" like he'd just popped…
- You have a "5-year plan". It's a Pinterest board. It's mostly kitchens.
- Tomorrow is a fresh start. Your problems have the new address. They've already moved…
- You call it "quiet quitting". Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody…
- You said "it's giving" about your own life. It's giving overdraft. It's giving rent…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
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