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"Almost".

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"Almost all the words we've
said to one another are gone,

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and if they were
retrieved verbatim,

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we might not acknowledge them.

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But the tenor of our talk has
been constant across decades.

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Tenor is what we meant by soul.

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For instance, the
way we joke by using

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non-sequiturs,
elliptical remarks which

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deliberately suppress context
in advance of time's rub out.

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When size really
counts, the billboard

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says, showing the product,
tiny, in one corner.

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So we need to search for it.

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Come find me.

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I stand behind these words."

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