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Each month we choose a favorite quote--something fun or something to make you think. See the archive for quotes from previous months.

I am not sure what it is that finally allows people to just turn to each other and touch. There is some hidden trigger. There is a secret language people learn, so they can signal to stop talking and just move. I don't know it.

           -- M. T. Anderson, Burger Wuss (Candlewick, 1999)

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