Kenneth George
I can't give you a single answer to that, it comes from so many different angles. Sometimes it can be a news item, sometimes it can be from reading someone else's story. That doesn't mean that I steal their story it means that reading the story makes me ask Ahh but what would have happened if.... ? A completely different story emerges that is only loosely linked to the original. The same thing goes with news items.
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