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while ago a friend gave me the very generous gift of a memoir-writing course for my birthday. There were seven of us doing the week-long course, and it was completely fascinating. All six of the people I was with seemed quite normal, whatever that means, but they all had absolutely eye-popping stories to tell – although none of them found their own stories that interesting at all; they were just living