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Why past selves can feel like strangers in personal writing

I have been keeping journals for fifteen years but when I read them I do not recognize the person who wrote them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The continuity of identity fractures when confronted with evidence of fundamental change.

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“Where Are You with Personal essay and memoir?”

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