Chapter Fourteen: The Rest of Your and My Story
Chapter Fourteen: The Rest of Your and My Story Chapter Thirteen The Rest of the Story The rest of the story has yet to be written. The future lies in blank pages before each of us. The rest of the story is your story and your family’s story. By recording it in writing, documents, photos, etc., you will preserve experiences for yourself and your posterity. You and they will know what you endured, overcame, and became. As much as you think you will remember the poignant details forever, you won’t. Memories and facts fade. My friend Kim is a young mother who knows how important it is to keep records of her children’s lives. She tries to write down adorable, profound, and funny things they say and do. One such event happened that she knew she should save for posterity. But life was crazy at the moment, so she scribbled the word “ouch” on a sticky note and went on attending to the craziness. A couple of weeks later she found the sticky note and could not remember what “o...
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