Orson Scott Card: Sometimes gossip can be good
Gossip is a ward-killer, for it can cause divisions and injuries that never heal.
Long ago, in a ward far, far away, my wife happened to be walking along a corridor in the meetinghouse. She had not been at the meetings held that night — she was only stopping by to pick up something she had lent a friend.
As she passed an open door, she happened to hear her own name being spoken, and she paused in the doorway, thinking for a moment that someone had called to her.
Quite the contrary.
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