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Drew, it was real, and it was great, and it was really great.
— Ellen Kishmore · Elizabethtown
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker stacks up praise in a slightly tumbling way: real, great, then really great. The repeated words make it sound sincere rather than polished, as if the feeling is too big for tidy phrasing and the emphasis is the whole point.
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