well, here's something to keep in mind, each of our personal writings, whether they be journal or otherwise, may be published one day in one form or an other, perhaps the real question is how real are you willing to be when the possibility exists that there are people that are going to be able to see sides of you that you don't normally show that you wouldn't normally want those people to see
personally, i'd say that since chances are it's probably the realness in my writing that will have gotten me to the point where i would have been published, i would leave it in, after all, it's me that the reader is trying to read about, why put on the role of someone else?