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How To Make Your Essays As Compelling As A South Park Episode

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We are born story-telling machines.

I am sitting at a big table with ten other students in novelist Porochista Khakpour’s living room. Porochista asks the woman on her right to start telling a story. Then the next person in line tacks on a sentence, and so the story grows, handed from writer to writer. I am…