Question 1
Where were you born, and what’s the earliest thing you remember?
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Question 2
What was your home like — the rooms, the yard, the street outside?
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Question 3
What were your parents like when you were small? What did they do for a living?
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Question 4
Did you have brothers or sisters? What were you like together?
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Question 5
What games did you play, and who did you play them with?
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Question 6
What did your family do for fun on a weekend?
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Question 7
What smell or sound instantly takes you back to being a child?
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Question 8
What was your school like, and how did you get there each day?
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Question 9
Which teacher do you remember, for better or worse?
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Question 10
What were you good at, and what did you struggle with?
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Question 11
Who was your best friend as a teenager? What did you get up to?
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Question 12
What music, radio shows or films did you love when you were young?
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Question 13
Did you ever get into real trouble? What happened?
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Question 14
How did you meet Grandma or Grandpa? What did you notice first?
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Question 15
What was your wedding day like — or the day you knew this was the person?
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Question 16
Where was your first home together, and what did you have in it?
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Question 17
What do you remember about the day your first child was born?
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Question 18
What was hardest about raising a family, and what was the most fun?
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Question 19
What were my parents like as children?
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Question 20
Is there a family saying or joke only we would understand? Where did it come from?
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Question 21
What was your very first job, and how much did it pay?
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Question 22
What work did you do for most of your life, and how did you get into it?
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Question 23
Who taught you the most at work?
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Question 24
What are you proudest of from your working years?
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Question 25
Was there a job or opportunity you turned down? Do you ever wonder about it?
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Question 26
What did a normal workday look like, from morning to night?
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Question 27
Which big news event do you remember exactly where you were when you heard?
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Question 28
What has changed most since you were young — for better and for worse?
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Question 29
What were the first car, telephone or television in your family like?
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Question 30
Did you ever move far from home? What was it like to arrive somewhere new?
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Question 31
How did your family get through hard times?
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Question 32
Is there a place you’ve been that you still think about?
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Question 33
Which holiday or celebration meant the most in your family growing up?
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Question 34
What recipes or traditions did you inherit from your parents?
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Question 35
Is there an object in your home with a story behind it?
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Question 36
Which traditions did you start yourself?
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Question 37
What’s the best advice anyone ever gave you?
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Question 38
What do you know now that you wish you’d known at twenty?
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Question 39
What are you most grateful for?
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Question 40
What would you like us to remember about you?
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