“Is there a photo from their earliest days that you love most? Describe what's in it.”

Why this question

The moment it captures. Why it stays with you. What isn't visible in the frame but you remember perfectly.

Capturing it in voice

• ·Don't script it. The ums, the tangents, the half-finished sentences — that's what their voice actually sounds like right now.
• ·Thirty seconds is plenty. A short answer you actually record beats a long one you keep meaning to.
• ·Say the date and their age out loud at the start. In ten years that one detail will do half the work.

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