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Preaching to The Choir

Once, on a river-rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, I traveled with a charming, good-humored man who happened to run an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He liked…

You talkin’ to me?

by Bill Wetzel, Liz Barry,

Enemies of conversation

Art by Robert Chesley Osborn,

Yankee reserve

by Bernard Augustine De Voto,

What nobody ought to know

by Frank Moore Colby,

What women talk about

Editor’s drawer

by William, Sir Temple,

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