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One by one, the rest of the crew came straggling in. I had been there for what seemed like two hours, but was probably only 30 minutes, when the last person arrived.

Jen and Katie came to sit in the circle with us, smiles on their faces. Jen broke the silence.

“It is good to be back together. I have a feeling that we will hear all about everyone’s solo experience, but that is for later. Right now, it is time for our Give and Take exercise. Everyone, please get out your journals.”

I already had my journal out, so I sat there and watched everyone. The looks on their faces varied – there were a couple of panicked people, and some who seemed to be happy to be doing this.

“So, um… I didn’t finish writing everything down.”

“I didn’t either! I’m just going to have to come up with things when she asks!”

“I managed to get something for everyone. They’re not very good, but it’s something.”

Hearing my crew’s panicked whispers around me made me realize that I wasn’t the only one who had not done well with this assignment. I was fine with the others, it was this one that I couldn’t get.

I prayed that I would be able to come up with things as I needed to, and opened my journal to look at it. I counted – I was missing things for five people. So out of the twenty things I needed to come up with, I was only missing five. That wasn’t too bad, and hopefully I would be able to come up with the remaining five things before I needed to say them!

I’ve always had trouble coming up with things about people. For some reason it is always really hard for me to do. So I was actually impressed that I managed to come up with that many!

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