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What's the truest memoir you've written?

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ctgoods2 says,

"I love you. But that's all."

canadafreeze says,

Good question - they're all true on the day I write them.

Wench says,

All of them are either true or not meant to directly apply. The hardest truth was about Gabriel.

Dragonflower says,

Most are true from the heart, some just playful words.

Truest and hardest to admit. "His night moves were very movey."

Layne says,

I try to make all of mine as true and reflective as possible. The truest; 'I want to be okay again.' Definitely hard to realize that I wasn't okay, and even harder to figure out where to start to get better.

Steve__Anthony says,

Man of steel. Starting to rust.

jl333 says,

"I'm eating like there's no tomorrow ". Can't get more truthful than that!

marymc says,

"Happiness. It's on my bucket list".

accidentaltourist says,

All of mine are true, so I tried to find which of mine was truest. But I always try to keep to the spirit of memoirs....and each is as true as the next.

Perhaps "Saw you naked. No turning back." was the very truest. In that moment, and now, and maybe for ever.

Possibly.

canadafreeze says,

One of my truest memoirs is the most painful and the one that haunts me.

MsKillie says,

All my memoirs are true- I'm a terrible liar and avoid it all together! I suppose the truest memoir for me right now is "Hippie sun worshipper stuck in tundra", because I'm itching to move, but promised my son he could complete high school in Minnesota.

ShellDeFelice says,

I love this question! Being new I hadn't seen most of these and they are all so good!
The first six I ever wrote was way before I'd ever heard of Smith Mag., in a college English class. The prof. used the infamous Hemingway prompt and I wrote: Sometimes I'm terse, but always unforgettable. I changed it when I got on here to: I'm often terse, but always unforgettable. Now I could easily change it to :We're often terse, but always unforgettable. There is something so amazing and powerful about cutting to the quick, weed whacking all the bs and then having that simple message create a connection with another traveler on this big round ball.

ba_miracle says,

Begged god for a different truth.

Bevvie says,

my first memoir: "Thirty eight years. Keys returned. Retired."

Undermom says,

They're all true. Truest? Probably this:
Muddled through life, confused but unbroken.

notyouraveragegirl says,

I write from the heart, so they are all true. I was searching for something when I was fortunate enough to find Six Words. My first one was probably my most emotion filled.

"Crying in rain; waiting for rainbow."

I think I might have found my rainbow here!

TawnyPort says,

My first memoir: Always end up in the 10%, and when I turned big 5-0:
50:acquired wisdom laced with "what-if's?

TawnyPort says,

My first memoir: Always end up in the 10%, and when I turned big 5-0:
50:acquired wisdom laced with "what-if's?

Level1 says,

I'm, with canadafreeze, mine are all true when written. Time may change the context or the feeling but initially each is raw truth.

ipromise says,

all mine were true in the momment in which i wrote them. now not all of them. the one that i feel will always be the truest is "why am i trying so hard"

mzejay says,

Sometimes I'm just playing with words but "Saw my past, kept on walking" strikes me as the my truest memoir.

kathi_wright says,

mine all are true, reflecting the present moment or my life-to-date. not all are wise and witty, some are silly, and some were probably not worth keeping... i am attached to quite a few of them...

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