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  • Jul 9, 2009

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    body language
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    What Every Body Is Saying

    AKA An Ex-FBI-Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

    As an author, I’m interested in people. After all, what better source for characteristics and behaviors for my fictional characters than the real life characters I’m surrounded by every day? Whether I’m picking and choosing or elaborating and embellishing, having fictional people do real people things makes those two-dimensional beings resonate with three-dimensional feelings.

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