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Difficult Mirrors

Okay, I admit I am running out of good title ideas, but here goes. Have you ever met someone who is almost a mirror of yourself. You see in that person all your weaknesses magnified. I have had such a privilege recently. I talked to a woman on the phone and she felt connected to me and pushed to start a friendship. That part is not really like me at all for the record, but she has other qualities that are like mine. You know how something someone does is grating while you totally know you do it too. I have difficulty concentrating on any one thing for a long period of time unless I am very engaged so when I talk to people I have to work extra hard to focus. Because I am aware of it now, I try to listen and have gotten better about asking someone to repeat certain things or just out loud repeating what they said to make sure I heard them correctly. That seems to help and I remember more of what they say that way too. I had an incident with someone close to me a not long ago and I could ...