Read the excerpt from "Duty.” What can I do but this? Let him tell it again and again as if it’s always been only us, and that, when it mattered, he was the one who saved me. Which universal theme is shown in the excerpt?

The speaker says to let him repeat his version of what happened, even though it changes who saved whom. This shows that the way people remember and retell events matters. The universal theme is the importance of memory, not power, freedom, or guilt.

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