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"making small talk and sharing personal life experiences"

It sounds odd to me to combine these concepts in the same sentence. Sharing personal life experiences is arguable a necessary part of building deep friendships, and it's often a vulnerable and intimate act. Small talk is none of that, if not the opposite.



But it is a prelude and a warm-up exercise.

No one - well, hardly anyone - jumps straight into deeply personal conversation with a stranger without it.




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