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SATURDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2026
Doom spending is buying a heated eye mask because the news was bad.
The news is still bad. Your eyes are warmer. So is your overdraft.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- Wildflowering means letting the relationship grow naturally, with no timeline. It has the growth…
- Clear-coding means stating your intentions up front. Hers was "I have a hard stop…
- Micro-dating is a thirty-minute coffee to see if there's a spark. There wasn't. She…
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