The saying goes: ‘Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order’.
No, it’s not the new inscription-of-choice on a long service certificate for some septuagenarian local government employee, although for many, it does capture the attempted zeitgeist of the last demi-decade.
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