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It is unfortunate that the only things we can rely on are writings, which could have been fabricated. I suppose that is the nature of stories. There is the story-truth, and there is the happening truth. 



''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.” -</span>''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;">Tim O'Brien's ''The Things They Carried''</span>