Some secrets are difficult to uncover, especially if you have no inkling that they ever happened in the first place. If you do not ask, no one will volunteer the information. Sometimes if you ask, they still will not provide any information or say that the event never took place. And sometimes you do not even know specifically what to ask and the only “clue” you have is an inkling that there’s something you are not being told about a certain family member (and…your “gut” could be wrong). And it could be that there’s a “secret” about a family member that only a few other family members are even aware of and they have an unwritten pact among themselves not to tell anyone else. If a great-uncle lived […]
In addition to writing about the dead, write about yourself: your own life, your own experiences, your own philosophy. Because one day you’ll among the dead yourself and don’t we all wish more of our relatives had written something about their life?
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