I was just at the playground, you know, doing the dad thing, chasing my kid, smiling at all the other parents, and inside my head it was just, like, a ticker tape of red bills, electric, gas, water—all overdue, all sort of... just piling up. And I'm there, pretending to be super chill, talking about the weather or whatever, and honestly, the whole time I'm thinking, "Is the power gonna get cut off before I can figure this out?" It’s kinda funny, actually, how good I am at faking it, how easy it is to just… keep smiling. My stomach is in knots but my face is like, "Yeah, everything's GREAT." It's WILD.

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