personal history

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For the nearly 300-page memoir, the 54-year-old actor broke open her personal journals, which she has kept since she was 13, and in turn, the vault that is her personal history to share her story.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

Doesn’t she have a kind of tangled personal history and reasons not to maybe want to have this American oversight?

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2026

It’s too late to rewrite your personal history, but you can change the final chapters.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 2, 2025

"There's a personal history of messages that I don't want to lose, as well as work-related communication," she said of WhatsApp.

From Barron's • Nov. 29, 2025

Of course this magic depends on one’s personal history of learning.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker