Prompt Me
Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car).
Inka, my covid-purchase mini doxie.
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appreciate each other after long being deprived of personal interactions. Let’s use this isolation’s latent benefits and turn the pandemic into good.