We are left with stories. Stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and about others. It's really the only way to "make sense" of our lives. Everyone has a story. There is the grand over-arching narrative, and then, there are all the individual narratives. Billions, upon billions of narratives. Uncountable billions. Some of these stories fold into each other, some of them majorly conflict with each other.
Every one of us has a story, and it always starts like this: "Once upon a time..."
Take it from there.