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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2000-06-21T03:02:33'
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title: Why are we moved by
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_Why are we moved by stories? Tales of things that never happened told by people we've never met?_ A [new comic by Lynda Barry](http://www.salon.com/mwt/comics/barry/2000/06/02/demons5/index.html).