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Wanting To Sound Like Everyone Else On The Phone

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Daniel Lavery
Jan 03, 2020
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Since Grace and I moved to Brooklyn last week, I’ve been fielding a lot of calls from movers and furniture assemblers and delivery guys, all of whom activate the anxious/helpful portion of my brain that’s so desperate to churn out unity and receive approval/freedom I just start agreeing to everything I hear, regardless of content: Yes, that sounds great…

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