Let me try a personal example with you. Let’s say I’ve been asked to speak for just 2 minutes to introduce who I am. Here’s version 1: Although I’m British, I was born in Pakistan—my father was a missionary eye surgeon—and my early years were spent there and in India and Afghanistan. At age thirteen, I was sent to boarding school in England, and after that I went to Oxford University for a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. I started work as a local newspaper journalist in Wales, then moved to a pirate radio station in the Seychelles Islands for a couple of years to write and
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