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Dad tells the boys about stories wanting.
“Why would a story want to make someone cry?” Ben was so much more serious than his brothers. “Same reason you cry anyway,” said Penn. “You cry and then you feel better. Your owie stops stinging. Your feelings get less hurt. Sometimes you feel sad or scared, and you hear a sad or scary story, and then you feel less sad and less scared.””
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