What if two people remember the same event differently?

Then the archive keeps both — on purpose. Family memory isn't a court record; the summer of 1974 genuinely happened differently for the sister who was eight and the brother who was seventeen. DearestEllie supports alternate tellings of the same story, side by side, each in its teller's voice, without forcing the family to crown one version official.

In our experience the disagreements are the good part. "That's not how it happened" is the beginning of the best conversations an archive ever starts.