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When you become the sole keeper of your own family history

I am an only child and both my parents have died and I realize there is no one left who knew me as a child and remembers my whole story.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The death of parents and absence of siblings can create a unique form of existential loneliness where your entire personal history lives only in your own memory.

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