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Writing Truth and Lies

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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Is Your Memoir a Novel?

In a coffee shop, i couldn't catch my breath and doubled over with pain. I remembered a man in the shower. Closing my eyes only disoriented me further from the world. And holding on to things made me feel too connected,. The central problem in your memoir is the fact that you were assaulted or molested by your father. You could do that as a novel as well. Why? Do you choose that to be not fiction?

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