Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Anecdotes and stories

Anecdotes are smaller than movie plot lines and bigger than one-liners. They live, or vibrate, or resonate, or some such thing, after they are told. Some anecdotes are always interesting.

Anecdotes that are found always to be of interest: stories of family members long estranged who re-connect and find that the whole thing was a misunderstanding. Stories of women who are dating someone totally unlikely: their dentist, their OB/GYN. (Not, I should add, their garbage man or VCR repairman. These are bad porn plots.) Stories of offspring whose parentage is unclear.

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