My writing partner and I are co-writing a memoir about our shared experience starting a company together, but we remember key events completely differently and every chapter becomes a negotiation between two incompatible versions of what actually happened. We thought writing together would help us process the experience but instead we're relitigating the past in ways that feel dangerous to our friendship.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two perspectives on the same lived experience cannot coexist without one person's truth feeling diminished, yet both truths are essential to the story.
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