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When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

Bryant H. McGill

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Bryant H. McGill
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 29
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Journalist
Sports Commentator
New Orleans
Louisiana
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