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The tone you took when communicating with me masked all that you were saying. The words tumbled out.
Short.
Cursory.
Stripped of the gentle pleasantries and deference that we all learned at some point.
Although clearly you’d learned other rules, too.
The tone you took when communicating with me masked all that you were saying. The words tumbled out.
Short.
Cursory.
Stripped of the gentle pleasantries and deference that we all learned at some point.
Although clearly you’d learned other rules, too.
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You were saying a lot of things but my mind wandered. I imagined myself a tall man with a tawny combover with greying temples. With wizened blue eyes and crow’s feet bursting outward on porcelain skin.
Would you be talking to me this way if I were him?
Hmmm.
You were saying a lot of things but my mind wandered. I imagined myself a tall man with a tawny combover with greying temples. With wizened blue eyes and crow’s feet bursting outward on porcelain skin.
Would you be talking to me this way if I were him?
Hmmm.
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Like, if he was me on paper but phenotypically him, you know?
A full professor who’d published things and built things and earned a reputation for his work. Who’d been a leader and who’d earned respect and who’d been doing this for a long time.
Would this be our exchange?
Like, if he was me on paper but phenotypically him, you know?
A full professor who’d published things and built things and earned a reputation for his work. Who’d been a leader and who’d earned respect and who’d been doing this for a long time.
Would this be our exchange?
