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15.4Now connect them

Try:

Dm7 → G7 | Gm7 → C7 | Cm7 → F7

This is not one diatonic key.

But each two-chord packet is easy to understand.

So the larger progression becomes:

destination-changing sequence of ii–Vs.

This is exactly the kind of harmonic reading we’ve been developing.