I found this reading very interesting and learned many things about life and stories. There were a few things that stood out to me. I noticed the repeating sentences, this occurs twice in the reading. I reread the sentences to understand why they were important enough to be said twice. There were a lot of sentences that stood out to me, either because of their location in the text, the wording or how I connected to the sentence. One last thing that really stuck out to me was the amount of research that was embedded into this text. I never really thought about research being done on life stories and how they are written. There is a lot being looked at as to how and why people tell their stories. I believed many of the things that were said in this reading and felt that I connected to many points that were made. I made connections both to the world and to myself. I thought about all the stories that I tell about my life and all of the stories that I hear about others lives. There were points made in this reading about how we tell stories and how we change them depending on the audience, I connected with this because I speak differently to different people. How I tell my friends a story versus how I tell my grandmother is very different. I thought about how often stories are used to communicate after reading this text. We use stories to connect and understand.