Margaret Millar, a mystery writer like her famous husband (who wrote under the pen name of Ross Macdonald), once said, “Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.” So true. I have sat so many times with a fixed smile stifling a yawn (or not) while someone “talks at me” under the mistaken impression that he (or occasionally she) is “talking TO” me.
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