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Wow this is so beautiful. I'm very sentimental so this makes me want to sit down with my grandparents and record everything I can about them while they're still here with us 🥰

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I still have the cassette tape with her voice on it. :) I am very grateful to have had that assignment. It was a gift.

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Oh what a beautiful thing to hold onto!

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Callie, I have chills. I visited my grandmother last week and her stories still swirl around in my mind. I'm hoping they help me understand my own story, too. Just beautiful how these notes became another story years later.

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I totally understand this swirling feelings. What finding this journal did for me was show how writing down whatever I can allows the swirling to settle and imprint itself onto me.

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This makes me want to be more careful as I purge our piles of homeschool notebooks. I'm so glad you saved this and shared it with us—what a story!

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I have such a hard time throwing things away. :)

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What a precious gift for you and your girls!

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Thank you!

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This is powerful!

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What a heritage you have, Callie!

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