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Summary: A Beautiful Way to Preserve Memories
Comment: My grandparents are elderly. One evening my grandfather was recounting an interesting story about
his father that we had never heard before - it suddenly dawned on me that there may be many more
wonderful stories that we may never hear. I searched and searched for a journal or diary that they
could use to preserve these memories and stumbled across this Journal. First of all it is a
beautiful hard-bound book - truly a keepsake. Inside is is divided into logical sections and
provides a good mix of questions as well as space for additional thoughts, pictures or memories. I
really liked that it had questions that covered all parts of my grandparents lives (i.e. growing up,
high school, college, military etc) - they don't have to fill out every section - but at least it
gives them some guidance. I would recommend this to anyone who is interested in preserving their
family history. A beautiful gift.

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Summary: A Book of Memories that Will Never Die
Comment: I bought this book for my grandmother when she was 80 years old. The many hours spend talking about
her answers and then writing them for her when writing got difficult was the most rewarding time I
have ever spent with her. She died when she was 92, so her funeral was a celebration of a fulfilled
life. The book was the center of the family gatherings. The answers and stories in it brought back
forgotten memories, gave us hours of laughter and tears, and informed her childen of things they
never knew-- such as the time she got stuck in the barn and her first kiss. My next project is to
work through the book with my husband's grandmother and to look forward to reading the stories in
years to come.

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Summary: Journaling Made Easy
Comment: This is the best journal ever. It can be given as a gift or bought just for yourself. It looks
classy and is hardcover. The best feature is that you do not have to come up with things to write,
it prompts you with a variety of questions that just help stimulate you to write. This is a must
for anyone and everyone!!!

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Summary: Finally, a list of what to ask.
Comment: I received this book for Christmas - my friend knows I have kept a journal since I was 12 - so it
was a "just perfect" gift for me. What I like about it is that it lists all the questions you would
like to ask, but have never got around to asking of anyone precious in your life. I am going to
send a copy to my 89-year old godmother - because there is so much I would like for her to tell us.
We're also going to use it as a tool for the video we are making of her - the questions and segments
are perfect for a project like that. In a future edition, I would recommend more questions or
segments for those with non-traditional lives - multiple marriages, foster families, gay
relationships, etc. But this is definitely a start in the right direction and there are plenty of
blank pages to fill in your own unique events, life experiences, and thoughts.

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Summary: Capacious, exhaustive, but badly organized
Comment: I was impressed by the thickness of this volume; I wasn't expecting anything quite this big. And
each page has lots of lines on it. But each question is given a relatively small space for the
answer to fit in, and there is absolutely no way to find a particular question, or a particular
topic, without reading the entire book and putting post-it notes in as bookmarks. I would have loved
an index at the end, or a table of contents to the sections. Also, parts of it are really
excessively sentimental - not everyone who's filling out one of these reads Simple Abundance
compulsively, and the authors don't seem to realize that.

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