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Let&#8217;s get deleting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently sometime in 2019 I signed up for a Tucson AZ Psychic&#8217;s mailing list. It&#8217;s not been the noisiest, but it was the first thing I saw, so it&#8217;s the first to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just this week I have some validation codes for WeSell Cellular, whatever that is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am part of a parents group in Ontario Canada, implying another child I didn&#8217;t know I have. Wonders never cease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think someone with a boyfriend named Josh and a dog named Toby had some &#8230; issues in their relationship. I suppose I never replied because it&#8217;s been a while since I looked. I hope Toby got the food they were worried about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m getting emails from Katie Porter, who is doing the Lord&#8217;s work in congress, but I&#8217;m in the wrong state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently I had my Mazda serviced in Queensland Australia which is, to my knowledge, the furthest I&#8217;ve traveled in my alternate timelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my families has had a few deaths since I last checked in with them. They hurt just as much as my wife&#8217;s father and my mother&#8217;s sister who passed away last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did use this email to set up a second FB account so I could play games back when that was a thing we were stupid enough to do, so many of the alerts are valid reminders of my wife&#8217;s birthday, but Julia isn&#8217;t getting her messages. Ah well. Life is better after Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope Jim enjoys the PTO he signed up for. Why I have to know about it? I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otherwise it doesn&#8217;t seem too exciting, this alternate life of mine. Apparently one of me shopped at Michael&#8217;s (which I don&#8217;t) and SHEIN (which I refuse to do). I&#8217;ve been shopping menswear is Quebec but I doubt even they could make this corpse look good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t like to travel, but I have Jennifer&#8217;s ticket to San Antonio next month. She can have it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I owe someone in the UK $920 according to Pay Pal. This is the sort of thing I feel bad about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 8,000 messages deleted, and I simply don&#8217;t feel good about it. I&#8217;m down to about 4.28GB used, and still have thousands of emails to purge. 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