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The instant her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.
We’ve all met someone like this, someone who is so compelling, convincing, captivating in person. In a one-on-one conversation, these people exude a magic circle of belief – they are not exactly deceiving you, but they create their own limited reality with the force of their personality. And then they turn it off, like a switch, you turn away, the world comes seeping into the circle and you realize the basic insincerity of that temporary reality.
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