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TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
Opposites attract.
Then they argue about the thermostat for forty years. Whoever outlives the other finally sets it.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday. Forty replies.…
- Things will look better in the morning. No. They'll just be better lit.
- Your resting heart rate is excellent. It's had nothing else to do.
- Money can't buy happiness. You'll never have enough to check.
- You call yourself "a bit of a foodie". You've ordered the same chicken 64…
- You're not getting older. You're getting closer. That's worse.
- Your therapist said set boundaries. You set one. Then texted them at 2 a.m.…
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