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Issue · Jul 19
Love / Filed under: Jul 3
01

Their marriage counselor gave up and sent them to a couples’ improv class. It saved the marriage. Sort of.

A couple in Providence, in their third year of couples therapy, was given an unusual referral by their therapist: an eight-week couples' improv comedy class. The therapist had, apparently, decided their communication problem was actually a…

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Money / Filed under: Jul 2
02

Her Zelle memos to her sister have become the funniest thing in her sister’s group text.

A woman in Cleveland has been sending her sister thirty-seven dollars a month for seven years. It has never been for the same reason twice. The Zelle memos have accumulated into what her sister's friend group…

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Parenting / Filed under: Jul 1
03

Her 9-year-old has been quietly editing his father’s work emails for a year.

A nine-year-old in Pittsburgh has, over the past year, been logging into his father's work email in the mornings before school and making small careful edits to sent drafts. Softening tone. Removing "just." Restructuring one particularly…

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A man expensed his therapy as "professional development." It worked.

Good morning. It's a Tuesday, which means somewhere out there, a person is right now justifying a purchase they cannot afford with a logic they cannot defend.

This morning's offender: a project manager in Austin who put twelve weeks of therapy on his corporate card under "leadership coaching." Finance approved it. His therapist had no idea.

Today's lesson in the great American workplace: the line between a perk and a heist is mostly just confidence...

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