But it's the sort of story that I was told more often than any other in Muncie.
Perhaps if they were told more often, audiences would gradually adjust to the idea of other races as ordinary, and in time more minority authors will make it on to these shortlists – with a whole new range of stories that will surprise and entertain us.
Ward also has a big white beard, and all through this week in December, with Christmas decorations on every wall and a gingerbread-house contest in the hospital lobby, he was told more often than he could count how much he resembled Santa Claus.
In recent years, I have been told more and more often that "your insurance doesn't cover that procedure" and have seen an increasing number of doctors refuse to accept patients covered by certain insurers because their reimbursement levels have dropped so dramatically.
Often you are told more personal details than you care to know about.
Eddie and the two Florences feel like such obvious crowd-pleasers you wonder why this kind of talent-free story isn't told more often.
Sometimes it's possible to tell; more often, each act of violence is both.In any case, this all seems very much beside the point.For both Israelis and Palestinians, the question of responsibility has nothing to do with who acted first to break the latest truce.
They are what she sees when she looks out the living-room window, which, truth be told, she does more often now than she should.
"The services are going to be told 'no' a lot more often," said Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr., a military expert at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a research group.
And truth be told, I agree with these protesters more often than not.
