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No, it is not a true story, nor is it based upon one. It is merely an exploration of an intriguing concept in narrative form.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald, the author of the story in question, wrote:

This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books."

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