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How and why are readers impacted by painful stories?

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Painful story can be very interesting to readers because they can resonate with the story or feel sympathetic to the pain that is being felt
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BECAUSE PAIN IS THE #1 WAY TO KEEP THE ATTENTION OF PUNY BRAINED BOOKWORMS.

When your heart starts bleeding because you are ridiculously emotionally engaged in a fictional story…you know you care. OH GRAPE. YOU SURE DO CARE. And the best way to show you care is to ache and worry and fret over something.
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