Once gossip becomes so big that it has a purpose, be it in the haunting of an urban legend or the ugliness of a conspiracy theory, it becomes a mirror. The truths inside a gossip that big aren’t in the details. Urban legends and conspiracy theories tell us who we are, the good and the bad. They show us our values, whether honesty and helping others or hate. It is easy to dismiss a story that has spread so far, a gossip that has grown so large, by saying that it must be untrue and made up. But if we can see beyond the haze of our skepticism, inside such stories, whatever you want to call them,
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