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Story summary
- A person expresses frustration with a friend's tendency to boast about herself, calling it "Tooting Your Own Horn."
- The narrator finds the friend's dramatic nature off-putting and chooses not to engage with her self-aggrandizing comments.
- The narrator believes that acknowledging the comments would validate the friend's inflated self-worth.
- As a result, the narrator maintains distance to avoid reinforcing the self-promotion.
