A story shared with you

The Echo Room

You’re at a noisy party in a hard-floored room, and your friend is trying to tell you something from a metre away. You can see their lips moving. You catch one word in five. The music, the echo, ten other conversations all bouncing off the walls - your brain simply can’t pull their voice out of the wall of sound. You’re not ignoring them. You genuinely can’t hear them.

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