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You probably know the feeling, a rush of heat that assaults your entire body,

your fingertips and foreheads, suffering fiery consequences of conflict,

restrictions around your chest and throat that quicken breath

as if your lungs can no longer draw in the required oxygen.

Ears on alert, biting time for a break in your opponent's rhetoric

to let loose the torn of thoughts crowding your brain.

Of course, not everyone is an opponent.

You likely know the opposite as well.

The cool excitement of agreeableness when the words in your head

are returned to you from another being as if in a mirror.

Unconscious head shaking as your sense of righteousness is validated.

The warm exuberance of easy dialogue with a fellow tribe member,

someone who you agree with and agrees with you.

In a digital age in which physical contact seems foreign and long past,

we might have forgotten what it's like to agree or debate with someone in person.

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