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What was the last actual lesson you learned from a purely fictional story? What was the story and what was the lesson?
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Robert Reed's novel Black Milk very explicitly (in dialogue and action) demonstrated that, in order to be truly happy, you must betray your parents. When I first read it I thought the point was a bit hyperbolic, but the more I reflect on it the truer it seems.
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was recently worried about my cousin, a schoolteacher, and ended up asking her mother, my aunt, who said she was fine, just busy. when I finally talked to her, I told her what her mom had said. she replied, "yeah, that's what I tell her."
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