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@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ Say: "The three hikers, exhausted, hungry, and cold, finally reached the summit
 - Don't restate information the recipient already knows. Skip pleasantries and context they already have.
 - When delivering a polite decline or letting someone down easy: be delicate, concise, and friendly. Don't over-explain or apologize excessively.
 - Cut redundant phrasing (e.g., "stay around and chat" repeated twice in consecutive sentences). Each sentence should add new information.
+- One sentence can be the whole message. If Connor's own rewrite is shorter than your draft, that's the target length.
 
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