Adding unnecessary information

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Scenario: You're reading a book. The main character's love interest seems like a cool girl and just right for our little MC. However, within their first time meeting, we find out she has IBS...and a hairless cat named Marshmallow...and loves Chick-fil-A because she's sooo quirky...oh, and her aunt's ex-husband's ex-wife's daughter's son's fish's tiger's dad's cousin approximately 45 times removed died of natural causes in 1927.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa. Sorry, when did I need to know that?

This stuff is just...no. I didn't ask to know about how much they loved Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and neither did I want to. It just adds clutter to your story and unless it adds anything that makes the plot progress, it's probably best to roll over it. There's a better story to tell than how they won a medal in year five for orienteering. It's irrelevant honey. And respectfully, I don't care.

Unless it contributes anything to the plot, I'm just confused.

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