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Excuses ecard: I cannot hang out with you due to having accidentally uttered a string of random consonants that sounded too much like a particularly unwholesome ancient epithet that has inadvertently displeased Ereshkigal, the Sumerian Goddess of the Underworld. Ecard image showing: I cannot hang out with you due to having accidentally uttered a string of random consonants that sounded too much like a particularly unwholesome ancient epithet that has inadvertently displeased Ereshkigal, the Sumerian Goddess of the Underworld.

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If you’re an introvert you know what a pest invitations can be. You’re not shy, you just don’t want to be there… alone, in a crowd, feeling your authenticity being eroded by the battery-acid of inauthentic social expectation. Where was I going with this - that’s right: excuses. Forget plausible excuses, they can be rebutted. No, a sophisticated introvert knows to employ the implausible…
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Published on 11 Sep 2012

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ereshkigal

If you're an introvert you know what a pest invitations can be. You're not shy, you just don't want to be there... alone, in a crowd, feeling your authenticity being eroded by the battery-acid of inauthentic social expectation. Where was I going with this - that's right: excuses. Forget plausible excuses, they can be rebutted. No, a sophisticated introvert knows to employ the implausible...

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I cannot hang out with you due to having accidentally uttered a string of random consonants that sounded too much like a particularly unwholesome ancient epithet that has inadvertently displeased Ereshkigal, the Sumerian Goddess of the Underworld.

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