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This is called "A
Conversation," and it's

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all in quotes except for
two lines, near the end.

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And I don't know, it's not--
either funny or not funny.

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I feel like I have
to announce now.

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[LAUGHTER]

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This got a chuckle, you know.

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This man is telling the
speaker of me a story.

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"A Conversation."

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"Then my little cousin--

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she's only 12, mind you--
says she loves novels,

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because in them, you
can really overhear

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how people misunderstand
each other at every turn.

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Then she asked my mother--

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she's 76-- if she
ever feels weird.

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And then-- this is
weird in itself--

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my mother doesn't even ask
what she means by weird,

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she just says yes.

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And they tell their stories,
which mostly I didn't get,

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because they were
absolutely weird."

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Out of the quotes.

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"Did he think it amazing that
two people of such vastly

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different ages
could have what we

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call a genuine exchange without
condescension from either side?

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Well, I suppose people who
live in such heads like those,

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are all on the same
page, don't you think?

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And maybe, it's best they find
each other and compare notes."

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