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I get paid to talk to strangers. So does Magpie. I'm very good at it. So is she.
And yet, surprisingly, we're both very quiet people. We do talk to one another daily, but when we're around each other there's a lot of comfortable silences as well.
Of my family, I talk to my mother most regularly, at once or twice a week. My sisters are generally once or twice a month. Friends vary wildly; we're spread out more these days, so it can be anything from once a week to once every three months. I decided a long time ago that the true definition of friendship is someone who you can go months without seeing and then pick things up like you didn't skip a day.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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