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If you want to know me, then you must know my story, for my story defines who I am. And if I want to know myself, to gain insight into the meaning of my own life, then I, too, must come to know my own story. I must come to see in all its particulars the narrative of the self–the personal myth–that I have tacitly, even unconsciously, composed over the course of my years. It is a story I continue to review, and tell to myself (and sometimes to others) as I go on living…[McAdams DP. The Stories We Live By: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self. New York: Guilford Press; 1993.]