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Elizabeth P. Donner Houghton’s recollections of the Donner party’s tragic experience can be considered a memoir because?

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It can be considered a memoir, Elizabeth P. Donner Houghton's rememberings of her childhood experiences on the Donner wagon train headed out west to California, in retrospect from the standpoint of an adult writing about them from memory. 
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