rewrite history
change one's story
negationism
the chickens come home to roost
negationist
history repeats itself
what a shame
retroaction
what a pity
old sins have long shadows
misrecount
resipiscence
retrospection
might
spoil
shuck and jive
hindsightism
what if
Chinese whispers
legend
shift one's ground
might've
put behind one
restimulate
recollect
bring back
actuals
likely story
antihistory
retrogressionism
fiction
retrogradism
backdating
anecdotalize
false memory
come home to roost
twist
look back
take back
the last I heard
degemination
send back
F
affrication
flash-forward
confession
what was someone thinking
recollection
anamnesis
apperceptive
analepsis
retrospective memory
nasalization
remembrance
drag up
flashback
backcast
atomic
spirantization
unhistory
unpredict
swallow one's words
now what
a fault confessed is half redressed
what now
inflection
miscarrying
eat one's words
illude
even
God works in mysterious ways
unteach
nonthesis
retroject
lie
put someone in a false position
know
bygone
flip the script
update
reminiscence
going to
reminisce
explain
chronicle
account
history
story
refute
telltale
water under the bridge
wear sackcloth and ashes
receipt
memory-hole
as yet
backhanded
it figures
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