Questions my family never asked each other. I'm answering them, one a week. By R. Kent Gibson, author of What Nobody Dares to Ask. Come answer yours.
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AI can fake a photo, a voice, even a whole video. It can't fake a memory you share with someone.
Quick experiment: post a memory with a friend, tag them, and ask "What did I leave out?"
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Doctor. Lawyer. Cave hermit. Master thief. Buddha. Mine was a list of thirty-two.
What did you want to be, before anyone told you what was realistic?
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Asked near the end of his life if he had any regrets, Britain’s Poet Laureate gave an answer nobody expected.
What about your own desire have you never said aloud to anyone?
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11 November, eleven o'clock. Most of them came home and never talked about it.
What were they carrying that you only learned about later?
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Some questions have a deadline. Ask while there is still someone to answer.
What is the question you never put to the parent you found hardest to reach?
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Drug use, betrayal. Suicide, death. It is hard to tell your children what you have been through. Do you want them to face the same demons unprepared?
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I made my father up. For years.
What is the question you never put to the parent you found hardest to reach?
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Questions to ask your parents before they die. Five, from the book.
Whose death has affected you most?
Save this for your next visit.
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Some mothers can’t give what they never got. You kept reaching anyway.
What did you need from them that they did not have to give?
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5 questions to ask your mother, before it's too late. Which one would you ask first?
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The first time you filled in a form alone. Family history: unknown.
What runs in your family: a trade, a temper, a face, a way of arguing?
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Seconds, minutes, hours, months, years, or decades?
When did you last ask your mother how she was really doing? Ask her today.
#AskYourMom #family #WrittenInFull
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What Nobody Dares to Ask: A Legacy Journal of What Was Kept in the Dark. A guided journal of the questions families don't ask each other, like "What was never spoken about openly in your family?" writteninfull.com/links/x #ShamelessSelfPromoFriday #WritingCommunity
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Five mothers, five countries, same love.
Which of your parents do you take after most, and in what way?
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One by one, the people at the table are gone. If you could sit for an hour with one of your grandparents, which one would you choose? Send this to someone who still has a grandparent.
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If your dad is seventy-four and you visit twice a year, you have about twenty visits left. What is the question you never put to the parent you found hardest to reach? Send this to someone who should call today. #family #WrittenInFull
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Moms on Election Day ask three questions. Did you vote? Did you eat? Why do you never answer the phone? US voter? Check your polling place and hours at vote.gov. Then call your mom. #ElectionDay #vote
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