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Dialogue is a place

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Dialogue is a place. It’s a playground where humans come to teeter and totter, to swing and slide. It’s a geography—a verbal top-of-the-Foshay—where we suddenly see for miles though still sitting in a coffee shop talking with an old friend. Our best conversations become spots on the map we revisit for the rest of our lives.

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Written by kirkistan

June 15, 2011 at 9:24 am

Posted in Communication is about relationship, Dummy's Guide to Conversation

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