Save the Story · Chapter 10 of 10

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What do you most want the people who come after you to know about who you really were?
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If you could leave one sentence behind that someone might still read fifty years from now, what would it say?
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What's the most important thing your parents (or those who raised you) tried to pass on to you?
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Imagine a great-grandchild you'll never meet, sitting down to listen to you. What would you most want them to hear?
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What's a piece of advice you've heard yourself give more than once that you'd like to write down properly?
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What do you most hope for your children, grandchildren, or the young people closest to you?
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Is there a younger person in your life you've never quite known how to talk to — but love?
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What's a value you wish your descendants would never let go of?
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Tell me about a possession — small or large — that you'd want a particular person to inherit, and why.
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Are there things you'd want said about you at your funeral — and things you wouldn't?
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Is there an apology you'd still like to make, even if it's too late for the person to receive it?
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Is there a forgiveness you'd like to be remembered for offering — even retroactively?
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What's a hope you have for the world that you don't say out loud often?
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If you could choose a single photograph to represent you — taken or not yet taken — which one would it be?
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What's a tradition you'd like your family to keep, even after you're gone?
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Is there a question you'd want every generation after you to keep asking?
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Imagine your descendants in fifty years' time, in a kitchen, saying, "She/he/they would have loved this." What's the *this*?
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What do you want forgiven, in advance, by the people who'll outlive you?
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What would you put in a letter to someone fifteen years younger than you — that no one ever sent you?
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What's the smallest, most everyday gift you'd want to leave behind — beyond money or possessions?
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Is there a piece of family history you want to make sure gets passed on, even if it embarrasses you?
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What do you hope is on your great-great-grandchild's bookshelf, by accident or design?
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If you could give one person one thing — not money, not an object, a *thing* — what would it be?
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Looking at your whole life now, what's the title you'd give it?
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If today were the last entry you ever made — and it isn't, but if — what would you most want to have said?
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If you knew you had only a year left, how would you spend it?
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What does "dying with dignity" mean to you, in your own words?
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Have you made plans, written things down, or said things out loud about your own end?
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Is there a letter you'd like to write to be read after you're gone?
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How does it sit with you that the world goes on after we're gone?
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