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Friend said my characters all talk the same, made me read them out loud

Was at a coffee shop last Tuesday and a buddy pointed out every character in my draft uses the same short sentences. Made me realize I write everyone in my own voice, not theirs. Anyone else have a trick to separate character voices?
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river_thompson
Stories are just stories though, right?
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garcia.wren
Not when stories are all some of us have.
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skyler_kelly69
Reading my dialogue out loud at home helped me catch my own voice bleeding through last month actually.
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