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Questions to ask · Growing up · for your Grandma

What did you think your life would look like at forty?

Why this question matters

The years between childhood and responsibility are where people become themselves. These are the stories your grandma rarely tells unprompted, and often the ones that surprise the family most.

Ask it on a quiet afternoon, give time for the answer, and write down the small details. That is where the story lives.

  1. Where was the first place you travelled far from home?
  2. What did your parents worry about most when you were young?
  3. If you could go back and tell your young self one thing, what would it be?
  4. What did you buy with your very first wages?
  5. What was the bravest or most daring thing you did as a young woman?

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Keep Grandma’s answers in one book.

This is one of the 100 guided questions in Tell Me Your Story, Grandma. Every page has room to write the answer by hand.

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