On the train, on the way home on a Friday, he had a vision and this vision told him that all of the stories he knew were true: the stories of valor; the ones where good overcame evil; the stories of love and betrayal and revenge and the ones that resulted in redemption and forgiveness; the stories where one person's sacrifice made all the difference and the ones that told of universal truths being revealed to someone suffering; the stories that ended happily, and the ones that lead to other stories that informed the listener and soothed them to a magical state of acceptance. Before he came to his stop he knew with clarity that the stories lead to larger truths and these truths lead to a deeper understanding of where the stories would end.

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