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Milo has been in a public speaking club at school since that hearing, something his teacher mentioned to me with genuine surprise at our last parent conference, given how badly he’d struggled with the exact same skill just eight months earlier.
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“I already said the hardest thing I’ll ever have to say in front of strangers,” he told me once, shrugging with the particular, unbothered confidence twelve-year-olds sometimes manage about things that would have flattened me completely at his age. “Everything else feels easy after that.”
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