n. a conversation in which everyone is talking but nobody is listening, simply overlaying disconnected words like a game of Scrabble, with each player borrowing bits of other anecdotes as a way to increase their own score, until we all run out of things to say.
{The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows}
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Short Story
Anecdoche
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- G: General Audiences
- PG: Parental Guidance Suggested
- PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned
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