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<p>I don’t know about “kinder” and “more forgiving,” TheGFG. Maybe some of us hang with people who are less challenged when it comes to finding interesting things to talk about. As much as I like being known as an honest person—which, in the main, I am*—I also prefer not to be considered a gossip or, perhaps even worse, a bore. </p>
<p>I assume that, quite quickly, the OP and his or her classmates will find that there are more compelling topics of conversation than where they did or didn’t get into college. </p>
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<li>There was that time, a couple of years ago, when I claimed car trouble to get out of going to a dumb movie with friends. My lie was transparent, and at least one of my friends likes to remind me of how lame it was that I made up a story rather than simply saying I didn’t want to go out that afternoon.</li>
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