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Here the writer is pausing or breaking to offer a new point of view or add a personal interjection to the narrative.
The author starts with a we stance or point of view, then shifts to an I or me voice which could hint at the pause or break for personal reflection or the paradox of the we being a me, the collective not really reflecting the collective but rather the individual.
He was inspired to write Freak the Mighty because of a boy who used to live a few blocks away from him.
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Did they break any chairs ?