You know that when I was young, I was physically abused and so I stopped talking.

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Rama kept talking, but I stopped listening.

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My friends stopped asking me out because I was always either at work or talking about work.

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Rod and I stopped there and lounged among the flowers, in a dry westerly wind, talking about the downland poet Edward Thomas, the downland painter Eric Ravilious, and why I should never have slept in Chanctonbury Ring.

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