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So to capitalize on how excited everybody is to see it burned to the ground, here are the only sentiments I will accept upon reflecting on the year that happened after the one that came before it.<\/p>\n<p>Here goes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Goodbye, I hate you.<\/li>\n<li>Part of you was fine I guess but a bigger part was the opposite and I learned never to trust anyone or anything because of you.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re not better than me.<\/li>\n<li>All of us prevailed and you ended, therefore we are the champions.<\/li>\n<li>How dare you.<\/li>\n<li>If you were a person I would talk so much shit behind your back.<\/li>\n<li>If you were a person I would also talk so much shit to your face.<\/li>\n<li>Like, you&#8217;re nice sometimes but then you turn around and start running your mouth, so it&#8217;s like, what&#8217;s your problem, man?<\/li>\n<li>I thought we were friends.<\/li>\n<li>I know you didn&#8217;t owe me anything, but it just would&#8217;ve felt nice to feel appreciated.<\/li>\n<li>You basically walked into our homes and ate all our food and then left after spilling said food on the carpet.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s like you borrowed our car and then brought it back without a roof and no gas and also it was on fire and also it wasn&#8217;t our car, it was another car that you stole after totalling the car we lent you.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s like you hooked up with our boyfriend\/girlfriend and we caught you and instead of saying you were sorry, you just asked if we could order Dominos for the two of you.<\/li>\n<li>Are you proud of yourself? Is this what you grew up hoping to be?<\/li>\n<li>Take a good, long look at yourself in the mirror.<\/li>\n<li>In the immortal words of Amy from Veep, you\u00a0have thrown\u00a0this entire world into a salad spinner of fuck.<\/li>\n<li>On our deathbeds, we will all curse you.<\/li>\n<li>I will name my sled after you so that the world knows that you have haunted me to my very core.<\/li>\n<li>You are Rosebud.<\/li>\n<li>Now please limp gently into that quiet night.<\/li>\n<li>Bless us everyone and may whatever higher power you believe in help us in 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did it, everybody! If you&#8217;re reading this, we have made it to the end of the year of our lord, 2016 a.k.a. the worst year to have existed since 0000. So congrats! It happened. 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