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“In its place had arisen a Promised Land of Duane Reades and Chase ATMs on every corner, luxury doorman buildings, Pilates studios and spin… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“He was out of a job because his company, StrollUp—“like Uber for strollers,” she’d heard him say approximately five thousand times—had gone out of… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“They were all in agreement that adulthood could, and should, be fun.” — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
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“She gestured with her head toward Andrew. “You know how they are. I’m basically invisible right now.” Katya wasn’t totally sure who they meant—startup… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“Nighttime Twitter was different from daytime Twitter only in that the content shifted from people in her timeline making dumb jokes about tech news… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“Couldn’t thirty-nine-year-olds just be old and tired and not talk about it constantly? Having” — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
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“She usually operated under the assumption that quantity tended to beget not only quality, but also traffic. The more you wrote, the more you… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
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