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How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such
misunderstandings? How many opportunities
have you been denied--or, for that matter,
awarded--because someone failed to see you
properly? How many friends have you lost,
how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality
that shone through for only an instant, and in
circumstances you could never reproduce? An
illusion of water shimmering at ...