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Why we dismiss elder stories we later desperately want

I spent my grandfather's last Christmas complaining about his repetitive stories instead of asking him to tell me more about his childhood.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The familiarity of aging relatives' narratives can blind us to their irreplaceable value until loss makes their absence acute.

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