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Aelxer t1_j622nrp wrote

Reply to comment by FarFetchedFiction in [WP] An elderly man, who believed in reincarnation, decides to leave a series of notes in the pages of obscure books at a historical library. As he starts hiding the messages for his next life, he gets a shock after finding a note from his past self... by metamazenft

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but for all we know there's no actual proof that the notes he found were in fact left by a past self at all, the MC just believes it to be so. It could very well just have been two random people that believed in reincarnation, and one of them just found the other's notes.

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FarFetchedFiction t1_j62bxaq wrote

You're not wrong. That was a twist I was thinking of adding, but the story would've gotten too long for the idea I wanted to put out there. Other than the coincidence of going to write the same thing in the windmill book, it's just as likely to be some random stranger that had the same idea, but I figured it wouldn't really matter if the lesson he takes away came from his actual previous self or not. If he can't remember a single thing about his past life, and has no knowledge of what his future self will be like, then the reincarnation would be indistinguishable from a stranger anyways.

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