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Never Eat AloneBut you don't have to do much heavy lifting before you find an extensive list of non-celebrity attendees. Here's a sampling: БЂў Irvin Kalugdan, a Fairfax County special-education teacher who founded a student break-dancing team with a $ 3 5 0 Washington Post grant БЂў Rosalind Styles, from the Frederick Douglass Early Childhood and Family Support Center, for which Graham had helped raise money БЂў Henrietta Barbier of Bethesda, a woman retired from the Foreign Service, belonged to a weekly bridge club of about sixty women at the Chevy Chase Women's Club. She said Graham never missed a session: "She was bright about the game, and she took lessons, and she was serious." All of which reveals an inner truth about the skill of reaching out to others: Those w h o are best at it don't networkБЂ”they make friends. They gain admirers and w i n trust precisely because their amicable overtures extend to everyone. A widening circle of influence is an unintended result, not a calculated aim. Graham's relationship with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, more than anyone, highlighted her flare for friendship qua friendship, as opposed to friendship for ulterior purposes ...» |
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