. was telling a wild story over dinner about friends of hers who put on a play based on a wild story about someone nearly burning down a house
and partway through I started nodding and saying Yah, yah,
when she got to the explosion, I pulled down my shirt
Conversation
“I still have the scars on my chest,” I said
and gradually it dawned on her that she was telling me the a story about a play based on a diary entry about me
FRAME COLLAPSE: when you realize that the world in the story is THIS world and it is sitting across the table from you
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