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This is why I write down whatever circumstances and events I clearly remember, in such detail as I remember, including cause, effect, and consequence if possible, hopefully without extravagance of any sort. But also, to relate only what I remember. I wouldn’t consider, for instance, going back to school records to look up information, or talk to people to “refresh” my memory or to find evidence of unremembered things. I have the feeling that such as I remember will suffice, and indeed will form a pattern (a unity, an anecdote), which is the kind of thing which humans, willy-nilly, are significant.   

Excerpted from page 6 of ‘The way it spozed to be’ by James Herndon