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A Polite Word for Liar

Revisionist History

CHAPTER

Memory Does Not Define Character

In the early 19 nineties, john whites talked to a historian named perry bidiscom. Biddiscomb found white's name in the phone book and called him out of the blue. This time, whites told yet another version of the raid. In this version, there was no shooting, no resistance. No one died. Do you see what whites did? He took his version and combined it with larry adler's version. There were arrests, and they were grandmothers. But at the end of his life, whites decided that friendship was more important than memory. That's our mistake. Memory does not reveal character. If the past is hazy and uncertain, then

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