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There have been several times where I caught myself overusing the word several, often appearing several times in one paragraph, across several stories. I generally catch it during the grammar/formatting check stage, but there were several times where the overuse slipped through.

Keep in mind the narrator is the one who's telling your story to your readers. First person narration strips the convenience of 'omniscience' away. So any non-narrator character emotions, internal thoughts, reasoning behind their actions, etc, etc, all are first signaled to the narrator, who...