Practice prompt before the prompt proper:

Write your life story in 6 words. Here is a famous example by Ernest Hemingway: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

Next, along the lines of the fictional town, Grover’s Corners created by Thornton Wilder in his play “Our Town,” write the 6 word life stories of 25 or 30 members residing in your fictional town. Name your town.

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