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I know it's not rational to be in a bad mood because you don't get to play around with an incredibly expensive new Apple gadget on release day. But it's one of the few true …

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I went 37 years without ever thinking about wanting larger bottles of shower gel. And then, suddenly, I came to the conclusion that it just doesn't make sense to keep buying those …

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I'm not naming any names here, but I was forgotten about! I normally tend to subtly remind people about things we've planned together, but this friend in particular has always …

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I like spelunking in the weird corners of the internet where people still discuss whether the Covid vaccines gave us all the ability to wirelessly communicate with Microsoft's …

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Anna and I had one of our fantastic “let’s do a bunch of neat little activities around the city” days. I’ve been back in Hamburg for more than two years now, and I’ve only just …

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I love that we both noticed the same thing and immediately wanted to share it with each other. It could hardly be a smaller moment, but maybe those are especially important to …

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Turning 30 wasn’t actually an issue for me. 35 was much harder. Thirty still felt far enough away from 40 that I could basically consider myself the same age as I had been at the …

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Not only did I get surprise pastries, they also came with a surprise visit from Anna. I can’t imagine anything better happening to a day that, until then, hadn’t offered much in …

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In case you’re as clueless as we were when we suddenly found ourselves standing in front of this enormous thing, wondering what on earth it was: a graduation tower is basically a …

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Let’s just say Anna’s and my preferences when it comes to mattress hardness are slowly converging on a point in the future where the only sensible solution will be two different …

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Anna was sick that week, and I was so happy to find this stupid collector's plate to take over to her apartment after visiting the flea market with a couple of friends. She very …

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I'm not sure if it's just a phase or if something happened, but she's very hard to read at the moment. One second, she's happily being brushed in her basket; the next, she swats …