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WEDNESDAY, 17 DECEMBER 2025
Children are a blessing.
They're also why the remote is in the bin and your savings are in the past tense.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- You have an eleven-step skincare routine. Your sleep schedule has none. The serum is…
- Not all who wander are lost. You are. The map gave up.
- They say sweat is weakness leaving the body. Yours has decided to stay.
- Your friends' group chat went quiet. It didn't. They made a new one. Same…
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