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Stale Fortune Cookies

For­tune cook­ie wis­dom from the past.

They might be a lit­tle stale, some are clear­ly oth­er advice that I’ve only reword­ed, and the worst part is that adding “in bed” does­n’t always work. Plus many of them would require for­tune cook­ies as big as your fist and/or writ­ing you need a mag­ni­fy­ing glass to see in order to actu­al­ly fit in a cook­ie.

But here they are.…

I Octo­ber 2012
II Decem­ber 2012
III Jan­u­ary 2013
IV June 2013
V Novem­ber 2013
VI March 2014
VII May 2014
VIII July 2014
IX March 2015
X August 2015
XI Octo­ber 2015
XII March 2017
XIII June 2017
XIV Octo­ber 2017
XV May 2018
XVI Sep­tem­ber 2018
XVII June 2019
XVIII July 2020

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