If I write it as I recall it, including reconstructing details as best as I recall them, then I consider it "to the best of my recollection."
If I consciously make something up that I don't recall happening because it makes a better story than what I do remember happening, I consider it unacceptable embroidery.
Obviously, I do not consider "to the best of my recollection" to be the same as objective truth. I do, however, consider it different from deliberate fictionalization.
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Date: 2008-03-05 11:50 pm (UTC)If I consciously make something up that I don't recall happening because it makes a better story than what I do remember happening, I consider it unacceptable embroidery.
Obviously, I do not consider "to the best of my recollection" to be the same as objective truth. I do, however, consider it different from deliberate fictionalization.