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1 " Depicting yourself as a whole person on the page doesn’t only mean recognizing your role in a bad situation. It means being emotionally authentic. It means showing all of yourself: the shameful parts, the embarrassing parts, the parts that you might regret or that you wish weren’t true. "
― Kerry Cohen , The Truth of Memoir: How to Write about Yourself and Others with Honesty, Emotion, and Integrity
2 " A sort of intimacy is forged when someone reads your book and both you and your reader wind up less alone in the world. "
