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n.Staying in something good enough because good enough is genuinely good.

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Good Enough Is Good

Nothing is wrong, which is why they are having this conversation at eleven at night for the fourth time this year.

"I'm not unhappy," says Reuben.

"I know."

"I want that on the record. I'm not unhappy. I'm — " He stops. He has never got past this point in any of the previous three.

"Say it," says Dalia.

"I think this might be it," he says. "Not it as in the end. It as in — the ceiling. I think we're at the top of what we're going to be."

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