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SUNDAY, 24 AUGUST 2025
Money can't buy happiness.
You'll never have enough to check.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You flipped a water bottle on Monday morning just to feel something. It landed.…
- Your Sunday-night plan for Monday was ambitious. Monday read it, laughed, and forwarded it…
- You swore you'd never sound like your parents. You just said "because I said…
- Your out-of-office reply is the most confident thing you wrote all year. Nobody noticed…
- Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. They were picked first. You're what was left.
- Rise and grind. Your teeth have been grinding all night. Your dentist bought a…
- You have a "5-year plan". It's a Pinterest board. It's mostly kitchens.
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