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The Girl Who Loved Stories

Weaving Connections through Narrative

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Once upon a time, I was a little girl who loved stories better than human beings. I open my tale with those sacred words—“once upon a time”—because they are a key to childhood stories, and to mine more than most. You see, I know that stories made me human. It was by devouring words written by and about people, listening to, reading, and finally writing them, that I learned to understand those I shared the world with, and to connect with them instead of watching from a remove.

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Schure, D. (2017). The Girl Who Loved Stories. In: Caracciolo, D., Weida, C.L. (eds) The Swing of the Pendulum. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-224-4_5

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