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A fleeting thought about the number of one-word memoir titles atop the bestseller list became a simple SMITH reader challenge: What's the one-word title of your memoir? As usual, the SMITH community rocked the creative clock, sharing more than 300 one-word memoir titles here on the blog, on our Facebook page, and via Twitter. Your lives are Self-helped, Juxtaposed, Bullshit-ed, Medicated, Inebriated, Dogged, Disrupted, and Reassembled. You revealed that you see yourself, in a word, as Catatonic, F.A.B., Adapted, Assimilated, McLovin’, and Unfinished. Because we offered you the option to expand on your one-word title with a one-sentence description as well, we found out that you are Stirred because of your “life unlived by James Bond,” that your memoir, Mantourage, is about “an almost true love story,” and WithDrawn tells the true story of “an artist, where there's so much more to me than meets the eye.” Perhaps with an ear toward our judge, Erin McKean, founder of the wonderful Wordnik (“a place for all the words, and everything known about them”), many of you made up words to get to the essence of who you are in just one. The writer of Peripheraltastique explains that, “at this point in my life I’ve been living on the outskirts of other people’s success and passions—but in a fantastic way where I’ve been taken wonderful places both physically and mentally. Thus—peripheral + fantastic!” We were so blown away by the submissions that in addition to the winner, we’ve decided to name five runners-up, each of who will receive a surprise book from the good offices of Wordnik. And the winner is…. Klong.