In an intensive observational study of daily storytelling in two communities'six middle-class Chinese families in Taipei, Taiwan, and six middle-class American families in an Irish-Catholic neighborhood in Chicago'Peggy Miller and her colleagues72 found that preschoolers and their family members routinely narrated past experiences.
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Peggy Miller's observational study of daily storytelling did not reveal anything meaningful.
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