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The stories parents take with them forever
Connection Regret·All ages
After his father died, he stopped while sorting the photo album. He realized he didn't know who the twenty-year-old in the picture was with, why he wore that coat, or what he did in those years. A sixty-one-year-old man in Japan wrote in a survey: "Talking with my late parents. I should have asked about so many things." A parent's memory is a work scheduled for destruction. Ask one more thing today.
Talking with my late parents. I should have asked about so many things.
— 61, man, Japanese senior survey
TODAY’S PRACTICE
Ask a parent one question about being twenty today — and record it.
#AskParents#RecordIt#FamilyHistory
SOURCE
Survey of 800 Japanese seniors (Yahoo Japan)
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