A friend suggests today something I have heard stated before. "Based on a True Story" is a very inept description.
What is a true story anyhow? I never assume a woman is pregnat even when she is wearing maternity fashion garments.  It is a brave person who jumps to conclusions.

The most demeaning label you can put on any work of art -- movie, novel, etc. -- is "based on a true story." In the first place, there are no "true stories"; all stories are fiction. Stories do not exist in the external world. Story is the form that human consciousness imposes on experience. And any given experience can be the seed of infinite stories.
I was thinking in terms of there being many truths.Our lives are what we think they are, what others think they are and the question is, what are they actually.  We all know people who are optimists and have a great live surrounded by events that would break a lesser person and others who think life not worth living surrounded by wealth and health. 

Take the assumption we often make that a woman is pregnant for example.  Many a young woman has been offended to have been assumed to be pregnant when they have a belly bulge and around mid life this could be due to fibroid growth or lower estrogen causing the body to change from pear shape to an apple shape as weight distribution changes.  Similarly senior women with osteoporosis whose spines have dropped, forcing the gut to move forward are often falsely assumed to be obese, though rarely pregnant due to their age.

What is the true story of their lives? The fact that they live is possibly the only true fact much of the remained is subjective to interpretation by whoever tells the story. - thus I find it interesting, neither agreeing  or disagreeing.