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Is there a term of art for the maneuver where an author takes a notorious real-life event more or less verbatim, changes the names and calls it fiction, and then casually mentions the real names involved as another example of the same sort of thing? My first thought was "hanging a lampshade on it," but I don't think that's quite right. And I don't think one can technically plagiarize real life ...

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Happy birthday, mrissa!