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		<title>Is this the year to write your parent&#8217;s memoir?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To counter the reasons to stall, focus on the many reasons to proceed. When you see their lives unfold as a story, you will gain a deeper insight into their humanity. They had hopes, desires, pressures from their parents, and if they were like most people, they defied their parents in ways that may still cause shame. Informed by this new information, you will understand them and also gain insights to yourself. And during the course of the conversations, you will have an opportunity for intimacy, breaking through some of the posturing that separates parents from children. ]]></description>
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		<title>Ghost Wrote Her Mother&#8217;s Memoir, Part 3</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linda Austin: I learned why my mother behaves the way she does, which is one reason why I strongly encourage telling life stories. What happens to us affects who we are and how we behave. Once I cried with my mother while parked in the lot of the Social Security building. She had told me about some incidents with her mother, and suddenly I saw how that affected her own behavior toward me. I so wished I had known this long ago so I would have understood her own foibles and not have been so angry. I felt so bad for not understanding.]]></description>
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		<title>Ghost Wrote Her Mother&#8217;s Memoir, Interview Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother liked telling stories and talking about the festivals, but hated being interviewed, and she thought I was crazy for writing about her life. She thought her life was difficult and sad so who'd want to hear about that. She also thought since everyone in Japan had lived through those tough times that her story was nothing special. Her best friend at the time, Frankie, pushed her to get her life written down and actually started typing the stories while I was out of the country for a year. If it weren't for Frankie, there might not be a memoir.]]></description>
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		<title>Parent&#8217;s Memoir: Finding Roots Across Generations</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it co-authored or ghost written? Is it a memoir or a biography? These distinctions blur into artistic interpretations rather than hard definitions. When James McBride wrote about his own search for his mother's past in "Color of Water," he stayed inside his own point of view, with occasional well-marked shifts into his mother's voice. In Cherry Blossoms, Linda Austin drops out of the frame and lets her mother tell the story. ]]></description>
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		<title>Your Autobiography is the First Step Towards Writing Your Memoir</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But I don't feel done. I want to take the next step and share my life with others. The problem is that readers don't want a compendium of my entire life. They want a Story - that is, a dramatic form that we all have learned since we were children. My life does not by itself contain this form. To engage readers, I must find it.]]></description>
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		<title>How does John Robison end his memoir of lifelong learning?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first chapter of John Robison's memoir "Look me in the eye" was called "Little Misfit," because Robison didn't know how to get along with other kids, and he never seemed to do anything right. He left home and set off on a journey to figure it all out. His self-discovery took him the rest of his life. And I believe that's why I love this book so much. The book does turn out to be a Coming of Age story -- one that never ends.]]></description>
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