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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

Can you describe your life in six words?

Your whole life, what’s gone down before, the good, the bad and the boring, your future hopes and dreams all wrapped up in six little words. Go on. Give it a go. I dare you.

Stumped? There are 800 six-word memoirs in this little book. Some are more like epitaphs and I don’t know about you but I don’t want to think of my own epitaph, thanks very much. It inspired me to ask what others might write for their own.

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