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intimate backyard talks with her mother,

has Alison spending her afternoons

engaged in thoughtful conversation.

Alison has even created a network of

quiet, reflective friends. Although her

best friend in the world, Amy, is a

highly charged extrovert just like her,

most of her other friends are introverts.

“I so appreciate people who listen

well,” says Alison. “They are the friends

I go have coffee with. They give me the

most spot-on observations. Sometimes I

haven’t even realized I was doing

something counterproductive, and my

introverted friends will say, ‘Here’s

what you’re doing, and here are fifteen

examples of when you did that same

thing,’ whereas my friend Amy

wouldn’t even notice. But my introverted

friends are sitting back and observing,

and we can really connect over

that.”

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