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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

301--Friendship

All righty, gang. Sit down and shut up. This week we're working on friendship and communication. Notice how this just keeps building upon itself.

Now you might think that family would be more important in communcation, but it really isn't. Friends are chosen. Therefore the communication used with them is more carefully chosen. The things you talk about, the ways you show to one another that each is important to the other [she turns to the board and writes RECIPROCITY] The ways in which there is reciprocal respect and action. It's amazing what we say when and to whom. Have you ever told a complete stranger somethign you would only tell a close friend after a long passage of time? It's the human condition to do that. Let's talk, we'll ease in. Intimacy, trust, and platonic friendships. Whatcha think?

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[miss-monochrome.livejournal.com]

::comes into class quietly and more withdrawn than usual, her mind on her next class::

Before coming here I hardly ever told anybody anything about me unless I had to. ::shrugs:: I guess it's that, talking to a stranger tends to distance yourself from the subject. I can talk to people here about things back home because I know I'm never going to have to be in that environment with them.