It’s funny how fashion works in things you wouldn’t imagine. You might read a magazine and note that it has a story about, say, a runaway. Then you notice that a new runaway story just started elsewhere. The next thing you know, it’s runaways all over the place. True, some of that is confirmation bias, […]
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