I once knew a woman who had been famously kidnapped as a child. She confessed to me that she longed to talk about her kidnapping, but no one ever brought it up. "Why?" she wondered. The story had been in print, after all, the subject of national headlines; it preceded her into every room. She was left with an acute sense of apartness, her unspoken story roiling inside her. "What am I supposed to do?" she asked me. "Pick up the phone and call Patty Hearst?"
When You Write a Memoir, Readers Think They Know You Better Than They Do - The New York Times
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