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Inevitably, the emphasis of a relationship moves from sex toward conversation. Whether one feels this change as positive or negative reveals two important things about one’s future: whether or not one is capable of finding a “spiritual” aspect upon one’s reality and also whether or not one is capable of even the smallest degree of happiness. And conversation just so happens to be one of the most spiritual of the types of happiness. An added blessing, and not at all obvious, is the very real abundance of this Joy: what is lost in immediate sensation is more than compensated by the nearly effortless, lifetime accumulation of little nothings into a consciousness rivaling the universe.