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WEDNESDAY, 16 APRIL 2025
"It's just a phase" is a phrase you'll say for eighteen years.
You're the phase they'll describe to a therapist.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- There's someone out there for everyone. Yours married someone else in 2019. They look…
- You're "so random". You've told the same "so random" story at every party since…
- Inside every older person is a younger person. The younger person is furious about…
- The best time to start saving was twenty years ago. The second-best time was…
- Your teenager isn't ignoring everyone. Just you. You're saved in their phone as "Do…
- You're "in your villain era". You returned a lukewarm coffee and apologised four times.…
- "It's just a phase" is a phrase you'll say for eighteen years. You're the…
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