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Building a relationship based on choice, communication, and trust often starts with respect. Spotty taught me this first memorable lesson in the field—well, the orchard, actually. We were perfectly suited, he and I: we were both about half the height of others in our species (he was a small Shetland pony, and I was 5 years old); equally independent in thought, we were both determined to control the outcome of our first conjoined experience; and cocky, neither of us had any doubt we’d persevere.
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Lyle, E. (2017). Respect. In: Of Books, Barns, and Boardrooms. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-164-3_10
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