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When family history depends on a single fading memory

My grandmother is the last person alive who remembers our family stories but she has dementia and I'm racing to record everything before it's gone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The urgency of preserving vanishing oral history creates pressure to be the keeper of collective memory.

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