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Shmoop lots of people manage to live really exciting lives whether they're [very busy crossing on a city road]

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astronauts or rock stars or astronauts who somehow managed to form a rock band

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while in space well you never know maybe there's life out there and maybe

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it's pretty okay on the drum anyway these people not only get a lifetime [astronaut and an alien playing the drums in space]

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worth of great memories to look back upon but they might also get to write a

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memoir 'la memoir is an account of a person's personal life and experiences

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they're usually told in the first person by the author and they usually use I and [a fountain pen scribbling on paper]

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me using the Royal we is a little too pretentious even if you're writing a

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memoir and a memoir might sound an awful lot like an autobiography aka a book

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where someone tells the story of their own life but there's a big difference

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while an autobiography covers a person's entire life [a baby and a gravestone]

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a memoir focuses on certain parts of the person's life generally related to some

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sort of theme like memoir memory but we can see how this would work with the

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life of a rockstar an autobiography would attempt to cover everything from [a baby in a box singing into a microphone]

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their birth all the way up to their favorite kind of jello to steal from

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other old coots at the nursing home on the other hand a memoir would be more

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likely to just focus on the rock stars musical career no early bands they were [rock band member playing the guitar]

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in how they struck it big that kind of thing so if your main interest in the

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rock star is the specific brand of diapers they wore as an infant well

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you'd better hope they write an autobiography rather than a memoir also [a man staring at a pair of diapers]

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wow what a weird baby we won't go there that said you don't need to be rich and

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famous to write a memoir just about anything can be the running theme of a

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memoir from the various places you've lived to the various pet you own to the [lots of trees with rainfall]

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various shoes you worn though something tells us that the rock stars memoir is

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probably going to sell a few more copies than your shoe book but er just a hunch [woman looking sad selling books of her shoe]

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