Improving my communication skills

Dear Brenda,

I am trying to make some good friends but I always feel that my communication level is so insufficient (i.e. not finding the right way of saying and writing things) and it always makes me to be isolated from others. Is there any ways I could improve my communication skills? Is it possible to get some examples, also how to write?
- Rajesh

Dear Rajesh,
I’m not sure what kind of people you’re trying to impress here, but you sound very eloquent to me, my dear. All I can say is that true good friends appreciate you the way you are, and don’t expect you to change for them. Of course if you want to improve your communication skills, there are many options open to you, babe. Take a class or workshop, Read the classics, hang out with writers, go to book readings, or just wear a smoking jacket, a furrowed brow, and constantly appear deep in thought.

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