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The Memoirs, they are a source material that just seems to drive some people over the edge, and yet it really shouldn't. Far too many people are focused on the accusations that the memoirs are a forgery instead of focusing their attention on the potential accuracy of the information within. So allow me to offer you some hard earned background as it pertains to most of these accusations.
When I first became aware of the memoirs I was just like everyone else, not sure if I should take anything in the memoirs as accurate or not. So over the course of a few years I often held exchanges with many of the people who were intimately familiar with the text. Sure enough, many of them felt that memoirs were a forgery, even concluding as much in their various writings, while yet others remained undecided. Interesting but not nearly the overwhelming opinion that I was hoping for. Why? Keep reading.
Of those who felt that the memoirs were a decided forgery I often encountered circumstances during our exchanges that still allowed these decided forgery opinions to leave the door open, and when asked why I often got replies like, “Well, we just can't be 100% sure,” or “because of some of the information in the memoirs as we just can't explain how Laflin came to know about these details,” and this sort of thing. So it became very clear to me that even a lot of the decided forgery folks still weren't apparently all that committed to their opinions and conclusions for the type of reasons I just explained, even though many had prior presented their conclusions as a matter of decided fact. So there you go, the blunt of it all, just as it has played out over the years. I can tell straight up, that there are still those within the Laffite society and those at Sam Huston who are still open to the possibilities. And that's a fact. Begs the question, why the reluctance to commit all the way?
When I first became aware of the memoirs I was just like everyone else, not sure if I should take anything in the memoirs as accurate or not. So over the course of a few years I often held exchanges with many of the people who were intimately familiar with the text. Sure enough, many of them felt that memoirs were a forgery, even concluding as much in their various writings, while yet others remained undecided. Interesting but not nearly the overwhelming opinion that I was hoping for. Why? Keep reading.
Of those who felt that the memoirs were a decided forgery I often encountered circumstances during our exchanges that still allowed these decided forgery opinions to leave the door open, and when asked why I often got replies like, “Well, we just can't be 100% sure,” or “because of some of the information in the memoirs as we just can't explain how Laflin came to know about these details,” and this sort of thing. So it became very clear to me that even a lot of the decided forgery folks still weren't apparently all that committed to their opinions and conclusions for the type of reasons I just explained, even though many had prior presented their conclusions as a matter of decided fact. So there you go, the blunt of it all, just as it has played out over the years. I can tell straight up, that there are still those within the Laffite society and those at Sam Huston who are still open to the possibilities. And that's a fact. Begs the question, why the reluctance to commit all the way?
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No doubt you are a creative expert on the fiction angles. 
