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One event is in the recent past while one event is in the very distant past. For example, Didion’s book The Year of Magical Thinking focuses on the recent deaths of her husband and her daughter, while Nabokov’s Speak, Memory focuses on his childhood in Russia.
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In a memoir, you are the main character of your own life story.