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Kind of Blue

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31. "so you sit quietly and feel uncomfortable for a bit

Reply to wildeyed (Reply #10)

Sun Feb 28, 2016, 02:40 PM

Feb 2016

until people get to know you

I'm looking forward to that topic later, too, because being comfortable for so many of them is what they crave right now.

Thanks!

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