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experiences and adult love lives, and
social issues like health care and climate
change; there’s not much in the
way of storytelling intended to entertain.
People listen carefully to each other
and respond thoughtfully; Aron has
noted that sensitive people tend to
speak softly because that’s how they
prefer others to communicate with
them.
“In the rest of the world,” observes
Michelle, a web designer who leans forward
as if bracing herself against an
imaginary blast of wind, “you make a
statement and people may or may not
discuss it. Here you make a statement
and someone says, ‘What does that
mean?’ And if you ask that question of
someone else, they actually answer.”
It’s not that there’s no small talk, observes
Strickland, the leader of the
gathering. It’s that it comes not at the
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