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In the book, Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir by William Zinsser, he writes, “There are themes memoirs have in common: (1) loneliness and (2) humor.” Find an instance of each in your memoir. If you can’t find these two in your memoir, which themes do you see? Do you imagine they are common to the genre? Why or why not.