EST. 2026
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Vol. I / No. 1752
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Love Jul 23, 2026

They have been married for twelve years. They have written each other a sentence every night for the past four.

A couple in Charleston has, for the past four years, written each other a single sentence at the end of every day and placed it in a small wooden box on their bedroom dresser. Neither of…
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Money Jul 20, 2026

Her landlord has not raised her rent in fourteen years. She just learned why.

A woman in Providence has lived in the same apartment for fourteen years without a single rent increase. She had assumed she had gotten lucky. She learned, this spring — when her landlord died and his…
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Family Jul 17, 2026

Her grandmother updated her will every year for forty-one years. She left her granddaughter the same specific item every time.

A woman in Nashville has spent nine months trying to understand why her grandmother, in forty-one annual will updates, left her the same specific unremarkable kitchen item every time. The item is a small wooden lemon…
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