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I remember the box of old photos that my grandma had.... guess they went to my aunt after she died, since my mother was already gone. I have a few pictures of the kids when they were younger, now most are digital. I keep planning on putting them to paper and in an album, but haven't and probably won't. When we were young, we heard the stories of our parents, but life hadn't changed a lot and so we were also living in those times, to some degree, and understood. Our children and grandchildren have a vastly different world than we did and I can see the validity of your blog. I wonder if they would even want to hear some "When I was a kid" stories? Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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One of my 12 year old grandsons comes over after school every Tues. Last week he asked me where the people on my side of the family came from. I tld him Norway and Sweden mostly, including Saami from my mother's mother's side and Basque on my father's father's side.........Today, he said his teacher wanted him to write down the stories. I realized that I had no way of verifying much of what I was told as a child about family history. No photos for sure, and the severing of family ties due to distance, which was the situation in the past.......He takes the quick and easy communication of today for granted, but understands the barriers encountered in the past.......interesting conversations with him about our shared family history.
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