...and that's the challenge, Readers. See Daniel Mendelsohns' wonderful piece in The New Yorker a few years ago, "But Enough About Me," that discusses memoir, why we like to talk about others while revealing ourselves, and lots of little truths but no absolute truth.
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I'm mindful of these issues. I take them up, struggle with them, and try to find the happy medium in my own Boston Irish memoir, forthcoming 2021.