Come Sit a Spell: Recalling and Writing MemoirsEileen Birin |
Contents
Acknowledgments | ix |
Get Started Keep Going | 15 |
Open Those Memory Windows | 21 |
Create The Narrative | 57 |
Make It Public | 69 |
Resources | 77 |
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