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When helping someone tell their story becomes fiction

I have been ghostwriting my elderly father's memoirs and I realize I am making his life sound more coherent than it actually was.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The impulse to give meaning to a life can betray the messy truth of how that life was actually lived.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The letters and journals you leave?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.