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Why emotional growth can complicate personal narrative

I wrote something true and painful two years ago but now I am in a better place and it feels wrong to publish sadness I do not feel anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The evolution of perspective creates uncertainty about representing past emotional states accurately.

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