No matter how close to personal experience a story might be inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and actually whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.
When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and...
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.
