Here’s a writer’s rule of thumb. When you read an assurance that “the following story is fictional and does not dipict any actual person or event,” you can bet the mortgage that, while license is taken, that the writer(s) are working from a news story.

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Jeff Hess: Have Coffee Will Write.
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