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The questions that get past “fine”

Twenty questions to ask your mother or your father — the ones that open a real conversation, and the ones people wish they had asked while they still could.

Seven pages. Print it, or keep it on the table. Every question here is taken word for word from our memory journals, so it is a genuine piece of the books rather than a sample written to look like one.

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Download it below. Print it, or keep it on your phone. Ask one question at a time — there is no right order and no need to finish.

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When twenty is not enough

These twenty came out of a book of two hundred. Each one is a large-print paperback with one question to a page and room to answer by hand.

• Mum, Start at the Beginning
  Her whole story, in her own words and her own handwriting.
• Dad, Start at the Beginning
  The questions that get past ‘fine’ and into the life he rarely talks about.
• What I Want My Grandchildren to Know
  Their memories and wisdom, written in their own hand for generations to come.