ABSTRACT
The longer it took author to begin the process of writing autobiography, the further removed from those memories she was becoming. One memory that she would have sworn was 'the truth and nothing but the truth' concerned a wagon that her brother and shared as a child. By writing autobiography, it was not just this Gloria she would be rid of, but the past that had a hold on her, that kept her from present. She wants not to forget past but to break its hold. This death in writing was to be liberatory. This fact was a constant reminder of the limitations of autobiography, of the extent to which autobiography is a very personal story telling-a unique recounting of events not so much as they have happened but as we remember and invent them. These are just two ways this encounter acted as a catalyst breaking down barriers enabling her to finally write this long-desired autobiography of her childhood.
