Having a geriatric pregnancy means I have already met my deductible and am close to meeting my out-of-pocket max until JUNE so trying to treat myself to some U.S. luxuries, like specialty medical care!!!! Physical therapy for my back and hips? Don't mind if I do!!

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The narrator is no longer doing it for sympathy but purely for the attention of telling a good story. Readers are entertained not by thinking the story is real, but by how the story is told

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in the next stage readers suspect it's a lie but still find the fake drama entertaining. The narrator is pretending it's real bc they want sympathy/care, but they're noticing they get attention for the entertainment too And finally, everyone knows everyone knows it's fake, I.e. we have fiction

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r/relationship_advice retraces every stage in the evolution of stories You start with actually true tales, using language to recount things that happened Then you get people making up stories because they see what the first group gets: attention, sympathy, care. But then...

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youtu.be/E3R_3h6zQEs?...

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