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Scenario

When inherited family documents reveal information that could change how you understand living relatives

My brother and I inherited our grandmother's journals and discovered she wrote extensively about family events we thought we knew, but her version includes details that would change how we understand our father's childhood and might explain things about him we've never been able to make sense of. We're torn between feeling like we finally have answers and feeling like we're violating everyone's privacy - including our father's, who doesn't know these journals exist.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people must decide whether knowledge that could provide healing or clarity is worth the betrayal of privacy it requires.

Your guide for this
Rabia
Rabia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with What history remembers and what it forgets?”

Peri

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