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Sometimes it is not a verbal stereotype -- a `` How are you now ''??
Or an `` I want to go home '', or whatever -- but a nonverbal one which reveals itself, gradually, as the condensed expression of more than one latent meaning.
A hebephrenic man used to give a repetitious wave of his hand a number of times during his largely-silent hours with his therapist.
When the therapist came to feel on sufficiently sure ground with him to ask him, `` What is that, Bill -- hello or farewell ''??
, the patient replied, `` Both, Dearie -- two in one ''.

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