Sometimes a response to a What’s Important About…To You? question is a story or an example, but no value words are used. What do you write down?

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Last updated: 20 Nov, 2019

You don’t have anything to write down, so you say something like, “Thank you for sharing that story with me. And (asking the question much more slowly…) What’s… Important… About… the last answer… To You?

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