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How Fiction Can Change Reality

In these increasingly aliterate and busy times, it’s good that people like Jessica Wise are reminding us why reading fiction is important.

Joey deVilla

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  • I was about to ask if aliterate was an intentional misspelling of illiterate, then decided to look up the word. Not only have I filled my learn-something-new-every-day quota, but I
    wonder if by looking up the word, does that demonstrate that it does not apply here?
    (Poorly formatted sentence notwithstanding).

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