http://www.thegraphicsfairy.com/ Our personal histories are created through our many stories and connections.  To understand something of ourselves we have to recall some of these back stories to make sense of our present state.  Sometimes we need these back stories to illuminate our friends’ situations to us.  Often, this is for the better and we become more compassionate because of these back stories.  We see old situations and behaviours with fresh eyes and more clarity.  To tell these back stories, we all talk about our friends to our friends–maybe you’ve even met some of your friends’ friends once or twice, but you just can’t quite picture them in your mind or there’s…