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When long-standing groups need to renegotiate their purpose

Our book club has been meeting for five years and it's turned into more of a social hour where we barely discuss the books, but when someone tried to steer us back to actual discussion last month it got awkward and tense. Half of us want the old format and half want something deeper and no one knows how to navigate this without hurt feelings.

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