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Scenario

How personal lens can distort intergenerational storytelling

My grandmother's stories are disappearing with her memory and I am trying to write them down but I keep making them about me instead.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The impulse to preserve others' experiences becomes corrupted by the inevitable filter of self-perception.

Your guide for this
Mura
Mura works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Personal essay and memoir?”

Peri

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