The purpose of this study was to analyze the impressions held by subjects, when comparing their current life history narratives to ones described 11 years before. The subjects were 20 female graduates of a nursing junior college now in their thirties who had written their life histories as a report assignment in the college in 1994. In interview they were asked to tell their past from early chlidhood to period of junior college, and then after compairing their present narratives with those described 11 years before, they were asked to give their impressions.

　While many had the impressions that they told similarly, they had also the impressions that they told them differently. In some cases subjects had no memory but they could recall and agree with what they wrote after reading them. In other cases the subjects simply had no memory of, or disagreed with, what they had written 11 years before. Eighty percents of subjects admitted that contents of their recollections changed. Overall, most subjects said “A is same but B is different ”, whlie a few held either the same impression or different ones.

　When the subjects noticed how their recollections had changed, some said that they didn't understand why those changes occur, and some thought the changes had some meaning and tried to interpret. Thiss hows that reconstruction by their stories might be done not only in telling the past but also interpreting the change of telling.