Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

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The truth can be very difficult to see in life. In a lot of ways, it’s a mystery. We may not always understand why something is happening or how someone did something. That’s part of what makes fiction so powerful.

Fiction can help us to see more clearly and to understand things that we might not have been able to see on our own. It can reveal truths that reality obscures.

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