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It seems to me that, strictly speaking, you can't write your autobiography because you don't know how it ends until you're at the end, at which point you're unlikely to feel like writing or to be able to if the end is sudden and unexpected. Even if you could write the end, it would be something like this: And now, my friends, as I reach my end, I want to sum up everything I've learned in my long and eventful life in the form of this vitally important messa

@DavidDvorkin Autobiographies are just muli-part series' that never get the sequel.

@DavidDvorkin A good autobiography tells a story. The end of the story isn't the same as the end of the author's life.

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