personal anecdote
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From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2024
The ceremony and benefit dinner featured special guest Oprah Winfrey, who used a personal anecdote to touch on the power of books to liberate “one page at a time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
Haley is reviving the personal anecdote she would give in South Carolina - almost verbatim.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 23, 2023
Haley is reviving the personal anecdote she would give in South Carolina — almost verbatim.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
She gives enough of personal anecdote and gossip to put young people on the footing of familiar acquaintance with those whose works she would have them read.
From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885 by Various
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