Which evidence from the Newsela article "Health Benefits of Reading, Writing, Are Not Just for Patients" best supports the inference that reading fiction can be very
beneficial to personal relationships?
"Because when people are reading fiction, they are imagining what it is
like to be in these stories, Mar says.
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"Trying to understand these characters exercises the same mental
muscle that helps us understand people in the real world."
"He [Raymond Mar} studies the effect reading fiction and nonfiction has
on our ability to understand what others are feeling."
"Coke points to books such as Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes." In
o that book the author writes about growing up poor in 1930s and '40s
Ireland."

The article claims that reading fiction makes readers try to understand the characters' problems they face and helps readers better understand people in real life.

Therefore, we can say that the second answer option is the correct answer.

In the article "Health Benefits of Reading, Writing, Are Not Just for Patients" we present the following ideas:

Thus, we can understand that in addition to exercising and improving mental health, reading allows for a better social life for readers, as they are able to understand people in real life, in a more sensitive and comprehensive way.

You can find more information about the benefits of reading at the link below:

i have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

i do not think they will sing to me