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Fiction in which a character tells, writes or reads a complete story or stories distinct from their own (so not an older person recalling what happened when they were young), framed, nested, or linked in a chain. By 'modern' I mean the last 100 years or so, just to avoid ending up with all the classics like the Canterbury Tales or 1001 Nights...

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