# Slowly creep backwards while speaking more softly and with a greater number
of increasingly-long…

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Slowly creep backwards while speaking more softly and with a greater number of
increasingly-long pauses. If your partner doesn’t attempt to follow you, the
conversation is over and you may leave.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [March 2,
2017](https://medium.com/p/52d2fc2b7276).

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speaking-more-softly-and-with-a-greater-number-of-increasingly-
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