Our public speaking teacher started giving us impromptu speeches and how we dreaded these at first. We never knew if we were going to be asked to speak about the men on the moon or mirrors. Baffled by the latter subject I asked my father, a skilled public speaker, what he would say about mirrors. He said the mistake I was making was that I assumed that people knew what mirrors were before I spoke about them. So there was little I could add beyond that they were on the wall and you could see yourself in them… Explain what they are to people who have never seen one he told me and that was another lesson learned.

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