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For me, it's the lack of pronouns (I, we, they, etc) and the short sentences. Many times, the poster omits 'I' at the start of a sentence. Also, they break up things into 2 sentences, instead of just using a comma.

The feel that I get is that many quick things happen to the poster interspersed with lots of boring time between. Like flashes of lightening in their life.

The style gives whiffs of 4chan's greentext posts; depersonalized psuedo-fake tales from people who need therapy to help unravel the other parts of their memories and emotions, not just the low/highlights (not to say that OP is from there, just that the styles are a bit similar).



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