Annotations for Creative Process: Truth

True story?

True story. True story. I, before my time. But I, I was told, all of these things are things I was told about.

Told in the family.

Told in the family. Yeah. They were family stories. Except for the times when I was present. Later on, when I got a little older, everything is, is hearsay.

Well, this is a question, though.

Is it true?

What?

I mean, it's true as far as you know, but are all stories true as, as told by families?

Oh, not literally, perhaps, true, but, but in their essence, I think, true. People embroider, people change details. But, in essence, I think, it's not whole cloth.

I'm wondering, I won't get back to my family too much, but my, my uncle, legend, always had it, was a, was a, a boxer at some point. He ended up was cutting cloth somewhere in the garment district.

Yeah.

But he was actually close to being a Golden Glove boxer.

Yeah.

I accepted that on faith. But I, I, I've never seen a picture of him in a boxing ring, y'know? He's long dead now. But, that was a family legend.

Well, if they told it to you, it was true.

Okay.

Maybe he wasn't as good as they said. Maybe he didn't get that close to Golden Gloves

Well, if they told it to you, there was a, a good measure of truth in it, you'd say.

Yeah. I think so.

I mean, it's a question of how many, how many sales, I suppose, Lily actually made.

That's right. But my, but my mother claimed, and my mother was not, would not have said that she, she took over Lily's route when Lily went to California. did pretty well. She made a good living.