a few words about narrative truth and historical truth

when the missing links of historical facts are uncovered, one by one, the narrative is more and more complete, told again and again, till it can be left alone, nothing drastically new can readily be found, then one can start forgetting about it, and pondering about it, then the historical truth starts revealing itself, slowly, so, you see, the historical truth is something metaphysical, it is not about facts per se, this is what i mean, when i say, to heal is to forget (and forgive), which takes place only long long after recalling