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[WP] Nori Geller typed on her laptop. In the full-length dance mirror on the wall, she saw the black cat behind her. "You have to leave," said the cat. "You're going about this wrong, Mrs. Kimble," said Nori, turning to face the cat. But there was no cat there. She rolled her eyes.

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Letters are traditionally folded into rolls, which are then wrapped around like a croissant with one end tucked inside the other, with a blob of wax stamped on the joint as a seal. You maintain OCR letter sorters, and are annoyed at bits of wax gumming up the works.

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[WP] But ... the bottleneck should have been hit at half this rate! What's different?

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[WP] Sisters Immortal: three immortal sisters living as normal twenty-somethings

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[WP] In 2020, Covid threw a monkey wrench into the world's workings, forcing millions of people to stay home and isolated for years. They used this lack of interruptions to build intense personal projects that would normally be impossible. In 2022 and 2023 they've been finishing.

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[SP] Just as you finished making chili, your wife and two sons came back with a Christmas tree.

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[WP] Preparing to write my Christmas letter, I just stared at the blank page. Nothing I'd done in the past year was fit to print.

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[WP] You being in a building always sets off all its fire alarms. It should also mention buttons and canary yellow.

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[SP] It was the first time Leo had thrown a party.

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[SP] "Would you fight for this job?"

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[WP] Nori Geller typed on her laptop. In the full-length dance mirror on the wall, she saw the black cat behind her. "You have to leave," said the cat. "You're going about this wrong, Mrs. Kimble," said Nori, turning to face the cat. But there was no cat there. She rolled her eyes.	1
Letters are traditionally folded into rolls, which are then wrapped around like a croissant with one end tucked inside the other, with a blob of wax stamped on the joint as a seal. You maintain OCR letter sorters, and are annoyed at bits of wax gumming up the works.	1
[WP] But ... the bottleneck should have been hit at half this rate! What's different?	1
[WP] Sisters Immortal: three immortal sisters living as normal twenty-somethings	1
[WP] In 2020, Covid threw a monkey wrench into the world's workings, forcing millions of people to stay home and isolated for years. They used this lack of interruptions to build intense personal projects that would normally be impossible. In 2022 and 2023 they've been finishing.	1
[SP] Just as you finished making chili, your wife and two sons came back with a Christmas tree.	1
[WP] Preparing to write my Christmas letter, I just stared at the blank page. Nothing I'd done in the past year was fit to print.	1
[WP] You being in a building always sets off all its fire alarms. It should also mention buttons and canary yellow.	1
[SP] It was the first time Leo had thrown a party.	1
[SP] "Would you fight for this job?"	1