Can You Connect With Someone on a Very Small Level?

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"I do firmly believe that you can understand people," she says. "There's lots of reasons we have to not connect with each other and understand each other or try to sit in someone else's position, right? That's just, it can be a scary thing to do." She adds: "If there are people who don't rhyme at all, I feel like that's if we can get more of the world in space for understanding what other people are going through without it having to be exactly identical"

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About Celeste:

Celeste Ng is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. Her third novel, Our Missing Hearts, is available now. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages.

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