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Nobody wrote them down, which was the point. A rule that has to be written down is a rule somebody was expected to break. The people who grew up in the sixties and seventies absorbed a whole...

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The dread mostly gets misfiled as vanity. Someone winces at their approaching birthday and the people around them assume it’s the number itself: the wrinkles, the knees, the slow arithmetic of mortality. Cake is purchased. “Age is...

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Ask a man how he’s doing and he’ll answer. That’s never been the problem. The problem is that the answer is almost always a working piece of camouflage, a phrase that sounds like information and functions like...

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Everyone has that “cheap” person in their lives. You know, the friend who knows the total in her cart within a dollar before the cashier does. The uncle who’s had the same Camry since the Clinton administration....

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There’s a type everyone knows. The same handful of shirts in steady rotation, the same two jackets, a closet anyone could inventory in about thirty seconds. Monday’s outfit is a close cousin of Thursday’s, and next Monday’s...

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