Personal narrative

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Personal narrative (PN) is a prose narrative relating personal experience usually told in first person; its content is nontraditional.^[1] "Personal" refers to a story from one's life or experiences. "Nontraditional" refers to literature that does not fit the typical criteria of a narrative.