I'm Skycalloway and this is No Mercy, No Malice.

Everyone comes from somewhere.

The stories we tell about ourselves determine where we end up.

Origin Story as read by George Han.

Every one of us has an origin story.

We define ourselves by our background,

the narrative of what made us who we are.

However, people often don't let the truth

get in the way of a good story,

and the narrative of I is often that, a story.

James Frye found no takers for his novel,

so he repackaged it as a memoir, his story,

which became the number one bestseller,

A Million Little Pieces.

Biographies and memoirs are America's second favorite book genre.

Ronald Reagan tried to curry favor with Israeli leaders,

with a story about how he helped liberate Nazi death camps in World War II.

He didn't.

Did his military service in Hollywood.

He did he build an empire on allusions to his criminal past,

but he attended the same prep school as the founder of Sequoia Capital

before attending Howard University.

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