A medicine person's wife interrupts a gathering to ask for grocery money. He opens his wallet and has $35. The narrator suddenly realizes they're witnessing a story unfold in real time, not just listening to one.
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And the medicine person was sitting there in this lawn chair, you know, those lawn chairs, you know, that are— that you sit on that have the steel or the aluminum tubing. And this, you know, the webbing on it and everything. And he's sitting there and he's talking to us. And there's like, you know, a few people have notebooks out, like as you would do, you know, taking notes of the medicine person and stuff. I probably had mine out too. And then all of a sudden, we're sitting there and his wife walks out the front door and says, uh, hey, um, how much money do you have? I need to go to the store, buy some groceries. He opens up his wallet and says, $35. She goes, okay, and she walks back in. And I sat there for a second. I was like, oh. And that's the moment that I realized I was in a story.