“What was the journey home like?”

Why this question

The car seat that took twenty minutes, the slowest drive of your life, the front door. The moment of carrying them in for the first time.

Capturing it in voice

• ·Say the date and their age out loud at the start. In ten years that one detail will do half the work.
• ·If a sibling wanders in mid-recording, keep going. The interruption is the memory.
• ·Answer it yourself first, then ask them the same question and keep both. Two voices, one moment.

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