How to respond to "need some new people to talk to"?

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Are you gonna text or call her? If you’re just texting then if it ends at “hi”, “oh hi”, then it won’t be as awkward as if its in person or talking on the phone. But it probably will progress fine anyhow so just give it a whack!

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