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I had a friend once that I had a 7-part handshake with. It was a kind of language.\u00a0 A beautiful shorthand. We would start with a traditional hand-in-hand, and move quickly through the sequence. In the second part we would hook fingers. The third part was an arm wrestling grip. Part four was a thumb wrestling starter. Part five was a pull-off snap. Part six was a fist-bump and part seven was a tip-off bump. We did it every time we met, and it was a tiny reminder of something that was purely ours, a moment of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the secret handshake sequence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3653],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-insights","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-1eE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4781,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2013\/09\/23\/weeks-events-opportunities-lemasney-consulting\/","url_meta":{"origin":4752,"position":0},"title":"This week’s events and opportunities with LeMasney Consulting","author":"lemsy","date":"2013-09-23","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi, all. 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