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A big prompt, but I'm still trying to figure out what things matter and what things don't. Half my friends have gone hard-trad: agrarian wet dreams, small towns, triplets at twenty-seven. They post memes on social media of cities burning, "muh culture in the time of riot." The rest seem destined to stick it out in metro: either climbing the ranks of downtown skyscrapers toward the penthouse, to burn out at 50 on a bottle of benzos and white wine — "where did it all go?" — or else as artworld freak-urchins, leaching around subway stations until they bum out at middle age to cheaper real estate in the north country, making bitter comments about health insurance to anyone who'll listen.