Stories

The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead, the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the first place.
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I believe that people tell themselves stories and then work hard to make them true. 

certain points

My life was now divided into "pre" and "post" in a way it had never been before.

Sometimes, just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly.