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What's the difference between calling your book a memoir and calling it an autobiography? It's that a memoir does not have to be strictly "factual," you can embelish episodes of your life. But at what point does embelishment cross the line? I agree that a memoir where none of the facts are true no longer deserves to be called a memoir, but this is a slippery slope.

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