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Hello, Lindsay. How are you? Feeling good today, Aubrey. How are you today? How's it going?

Excellent. I have a question for you. Do you like to chit chat?

Do I like to chit chat?

Sometimes I do if I feel like it's interesting chit chat.

But sometimes chit chat can be kind of superficial.

You don't seem like a big chit chatter to be, right?

This is very much like small talk superficial, like you said. I have a feeling that you will like ask an interesting

question to try to get deeper before you let the chit chat go very long i'm guilty of this and

sometimes my partner says you go too deep too fast you know when you're at a party you're to share people

you need to be more superficial but it just bores me you know get it. So not much of a chit chatter, yeah.

I'm the same.

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