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My name is Podri Gotuma and I spent a lot of time thinking about reconciliation, conflict resolution.

And there can be a fantasy about what a resolved

estrangement or resolved conflict will look like that you talk through everything

and everybody will understand each other.

But that's not always the way it happens. Sometimes time passes and somehow people realize that

we have no words to describe what happened before.

But nonetheless we turn toward each other.

Somebody turns off or they bump into each other at a party.

Or there's some distraction where they're able to find a way towards each other

without having to say we've arrived at consensus or we even have language

for what happened between us.

Sometimes I've been the fault of the conflict or somebody else had

or we don't know. Something just happens. Some strangeness between us.

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