Writing is a window to the soul.

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If you want to know someone's true personality, who they are when no one is looking, who they really long to be deep down in their soul, have them write a poem about nature or a scene in a play based on someone they have admired and lost or a journal entry about their childhood crush and their recent romantic relationship juxtaposed. Or, better yet, hav…