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When you're the sole keeper of family history and worried about its survival

I'm the only one left who remembers my grandmother's stories about our family history and I'm afraid when I die all of that will be lost forever.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Being the last repository of collective memory creates existential pressure to preserve what may die with us.

Ideas that help explain it
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