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When musical documentation of family trauma becomes a contested inheritance

I recorded my father's war stories with guitar accompaniment before he died and now my siblings want copies but I'm not ready to share his pain with anyone yet.

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The responsibility of holding recorded family trauma creates complex obligations around sharing, protecting, and preserving painful legacies.

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