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beginning of conversations but at the
end. In most settings, people use small
talk as a way of relaxing into a new relationship,
and only once they’re comfortable
do they connect more seriously.
Sensitive people seem to do the
reverse. They “enjoy small talk only
after they’ve gone deep,” says Strickland.
“When sensitive people are in environments
that nurture their authenticity,
they laugh and chitchat just as
much as anyone else.”
On the first night we drift to our bedrooms,
housed in a dormlike building. I
brace myself instinctively: now’s the
time when I’ll want to read or sleep,
but will instead be called upon to have
a pillow fight (summer camp) or play a
loud and boring drinking game
(college). But at Walker Creek Ranch,
my roommate, a twenty-seven-year-old
secretary with huge, doe-like eyes and
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