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