Reconstructing one's life seems to be the continuing project of human memory -- "how did this actually happen; how did that actually happen?" It seems that whole nations operate the same way at times -- how did the "Crimea" fall; how did "Donetsk" separate from Ukraine? How did Hitler take power? How did Donald Trump gain access to all the spoiled eccentricities of the American soul?
Nations, politicians, countries, and even individuals are all guilty of the same kind of reworking of recent history. Human relationships suffer the same fate! Who did what to whom and why -- are questions with an amazing array of answers.
How did a "problem" between us actually begin? Who knows? Who remembers? Is it all written down someplace? Or is it "written on the wind?" How does reality change -- what impacts do changing circumstances have on reworked history? Is history a continuously evolving "lie?"
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