personal anecdote
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From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2024
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
When asked what part of basketball he missed the most during the pandemic, James pivoted to a more personal anecdote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2020
He was a minister much in request for church soirees, where he amused the congregations so greatly with personal anecdote about himself that they never thought much of him afterwards.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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