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Greetings, writers—
Today I’m thinking about the stories we get told, whether in passing or at great length, and whether by strangers or by people we know and love. I’m thinking about how we take them in and what we might do with them next: let them go, maybe, or ponder them deeply, or forget them, or even use them by retelling them or writing them down.
Here are three stories that popped into my head as I was typing the above paragraph.
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