Armed with bullet points on an index card, even a timid mind can express intention clearly.
Well, most of the time.
I’ve had my moments.  Predetermined lines of reason fly out the window if nervous energy makes an untimely entrance.  With a potential to spread like wildfire, unchecked emotions will overpower a well-rehearsed delivery before a witch [...]

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Patience is only a virtue when I feel like I need some.  For most of my life, patience has remained one of the qualities of human behavior that I never really cared to possess.  In an effort to hasten most of what I wanted in life, I would resort to ‘vigilance’ as a suitable substitution [...]

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