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I was so intrigued by the short story Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer that I did some research on her and her background. I really believed that her short stories were about her experiences. However, they are not! She does like that most people believe that they were because it makes her feel like she did a good and rich description that would lead people to believe that it has to be real. She does say that she focused on the emotion each experience portrayed because that did come within. She says the experience and the emotions in the stories doesn’t correlate with real life but the emotions definitely do.

I didn’t really relate to the story but I was captivated by every detail and every description. The content was very rich, and it made the short story intriguing. My favorite part was when Dina was in the counselor’s office and she truly believes that she’s convincing him of that fake ending she but she wasn’t. “Maybe you’ll understand that when you need to express something truly significant, your mouth will revert to the insignificant nonsense it knows so well.” I feel like that sentence right there captured the whole short story in a nutshell, which was very nice.