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This is a specific type of [[Framing Device]], a [[Point of View|first-person]] [[Narrator]] who is looking back on his experiences. Generally (not always), it's an adult looking back at his childhood. These stories are generally big on nostalgia, but they also attempt to capture the naïveté and confusion so prominent in childhood. Since it's the author looking back on things, we may get [[Unreliable Voiceover]]s or other inconsistencies, but we also tend to get a candid look at childhood—including petty fights and foul mouths.
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* ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]''
* The A.E. Housman poem "[http://www.bartleby.com/123/13.html When I was one-and-twenty];" actually a subversion, as it's from the perspective of a 22-year-old looking back on when he was 21. (At least, that's the way that Tommy Makem recites it in the middle of a song, "The Sally Gardens," on ''Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy''.)
* The ''[[Warhammer
* Kvothe in ''[[The Name of the Wind]]'' is unusually young to play this trope straight, but he's looking back on himself from when he was younger nevertheless.
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* In ''[[Age of Empires II]]'', the Attila campaign is narrated by a monk who says "sometimes, I miss it", referring to his time being a Hun captive.
* [[Bionic Commando|"Let me tell you about the man I met when I was young."]]
* Both ''[[Icewind Dale]]'' games use this. The narrator in the first game turns out to be {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] Belhifet stewing over the memory of his defeat and relishing the approaching end of his century long banishment.}} The narrator of the second is a little girl who accompanied the party for a while on their journey who is now an adult remembering their adventure as she sets out on her own journey.
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