> I almost stopped reading. It seems the article wasn't for you. > fundamentally unrelated to the point The point (I got) was that life became overwhelmingly

> I almost stopped reading. It seems the article wasn't for you. > fundamentally unrelated to the point The point (I got) was that life became overwhelmingly busy in other ways, freeing the author from obsessing over the hand-licking behavior, which sometime during this period went away on its own, almost unnoticed. Generally, when an author includes a ton of irrelevant details, it's possible that they need advice on writing well, and it's possible that the details are actually relevant to a point which you may have overlooked.