A neighborhood archive invited residents to record memories of a market that had recently closed. The organizers valued emotional stories, but they also asked each speaker to distinguish a remembered event from a later interpretation. One volunteer argued that this request would make the interviews cold. Another explained that careful labels did not reduce respect; they allowed future listeners to understand what the speaker had directly witnessed and what the speaker had concluded afterward. The archive therefore kept both parts while marking their relationship. It also preserved pauses and uncertainty instead of editing every account into a confident story. The organizers said that they could not show too much respect for the speakers, yet respect did not mean treating every statement as equally verified. It meant preserving the speaker's voice, the limits of the evidence, and the context in which the memory was formed. The result was a collection that remained personal without asking later readers to confuse sincerity with proof.