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We think of our lives as a single narrative, a sequence of big events that have made us into the person we are, and this story is where most people start when they first consider writing a memoir.
But the single narrative view is not the only way to look at a life. We can also see it as a kaleidoscope of different stories, such as the story of your Spanish pilgrimage the year your brother died, or the story of your alcoholism,