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Once upon a time,_ is code for ____ lying to you._ We experience stories as lies and truth at the same time. We learn to empathize with real people via made-up people. The most important thing that fiction does is it lets us look out through other eyes, and that teaches us empathy__hat behind every pair of eyes is somebody like us.
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Once upon a time,_ is code for ____ lying to you._ We experience stories as lies and truth at the same time. We learn to empathize with real people via made-up people. The most important thing that fiction does is it lets us look out through other eyes, and that teaches us empathy__hat behind every pair of eyes is somebody like us.

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