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I pause, correcting myself.
Your room," I said, correcting myself.
"I mean, a family," I said, correcting myself.
In scolding you, was I perhaps correcting myself a long generation ago? "Perhaps" is simply rhetoric.
It's frustrating because correcting myself is slowing down my train of thought.
I've found myself sometimes saying "partner" then correcting myself and saying "husband," such as when I was recently referring to David on my radio program.
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I quickly corrected myself.
And the problem was that I would correct myself midsentence.
But even now I have to correct myself.
As an adult, I'd had no reason to correct myself.
I mumbled something modest, but it sounded dismissive, then I clumsily tried to correct myself and became flustered.
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