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Shorterthebetter

WEBSITE REVIEW

By ELISHA NARTA

STORIES can often bereally long and boring, soto avoid being caught up inone such tale, check outonesentence.org.

The site allows people allover the world to submittheir stories — but only inone sentence.

Whether it’s funny, sad,happy or otherwise, hereit’s summed up in oneshort sentence.

You can use any momentin your life which is of sig-nificance to you, and thenshare it with people allover the world with shortattention spans.

There are many storiesfrom around the globe,about heartbreak and loss,about love and life andeverything in between.

And it’s astounding theimpact one short sentencecan have.

Like this post about thedeath of the writer’s grand-father: ‘‘My cousin and Iwere two years old, play-ing tag around the coffeetable, not understandingwhy all the grown-upswere crying.’’

Or this romantic con-tribution from J: ‘‘He al-ways said we had ‘theworld’s longest runningunrequited internet loveafter 16 years of onlinefriendship and flirting, butwe never thought it’d beforever.’’

And there’s many one-liners to give you a giggletoo. From Nicole: ‘‘Shortlyafter telling us we neededto lose weight, my grandmawas offended that we didn’twant all three desserts shehad prepared.’’

www.onesentence.org