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or there might be a core of the story that is true, yes?
that memory is often unreliable is given. that folk make things up is also given. that sometimes not everything is made up is also a given. in this case, the source material is particularly complicated for interpreting via an abstract medium like this: it is a childhood diary--so maybe an internal family story is reproduced there as fact? maybe the story that is reproduced is true?
maybe the father was a problematic character--but i am unclear on how whatever problems he might have had impinge on a story that unfolded after his death.
it is, in a sense, impossible to come to a reasonable interpretation of this based on the information provided in the thread. which is not a criticism of kangereau--it is more a limitation of boards like this.
as for the question of politics vs. paranoia--i dont see any way to determine the type of thread this in fact is.
there is no way to know.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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