Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning…

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Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore ✨ Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). Between the Lines, p.322, Simon and Schuster
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