Who Would Ever Listen to the Grapevine?

Shirley Ann Parker
6 min readFeb 19, 2022

It’s All Just Gossip or Worse and It Hurts!

A grapevine showing leaves, tendrils, and purple blossoms
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Even though I minored in Communication with emphasis on Journalism during undergraduate studies, there was one form of communication that we never discussed — the grapevine.

In fact, it did not even warrant a mention followed by the customary airy dismissal by one of my English or Journalism professors. (Now there’s a split…

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Shirley Ann Parker

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