Question 1
What is the first Thanksgiving, or big family holiday meal, you can remember? Where were you, and who was at the table?
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Question 2
Who did the cooking when you were young, and what were you allowed to help with?
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Question 3
Which dish had to be on the table every year? Who made it, and how?
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Question 4
Was there a year the holiday went differently — a move, a storm, a burnt turkey, someone missing?
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Question 5
Where did everyone sit? Was there a kids’ table, and when did you finally leave it?
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Question 6
What did your family do after the meal — games, a walk, football, dishes, naps?
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Question 7
Is there a recipe you still make the way your mother or grandmother did? What’s the step nobody else gets right?
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Question 8
What did the kitchen smell like on a holiday morning?
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Question 9
Did your family bring dishes from another place or culture to the table? Where did they come from?
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Question 10
Was there a dish everyone politely pretended to like?
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Question 11
If you could taste one meal from your childhood again, which would it be?
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Question 12
What was the house you grew up in like? Walk me through the front door.
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Question 13
What did your parents do for work, and how did that shape your family’s days?
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Question 14
Who were you closest to growing up — a sibling, a cousin, a friend down the street?
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Question 15
What was an ordinary Saturday like when you were ten?
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Question 16
What were you a little afraid of as a child, and what made you feel safe?
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Question 17
What’s something about growing up back then that would surprise your grandchildren?
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Question 18
Looking back, who are you most grateful for, and what did they do?
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Question 19
Was there a time when money or food was tight? How did your family manage?
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Question 20
Who helped you when you needed it most?
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Question 21
What small kindness from someone do you still think about?
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Question 22
Which year were you most thankful to get through, and what carried you?
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Question 23
What are you thankful for now that you didn’t appreciate when you were young?
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Question 24
How did you meet Grandma or Grandpa — or the person who mattered most? What was your first impression?
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Question 25
What was your first job, and what did you do with your first paycheck?
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Question 26
What decision changed the direction of your life?
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Question 27
What did you want to be when you grew up, and how close did you get?
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Question 28
Which family tradition do you hope we keep going, and why that one?
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Question 29
What would you like your great-grandchildren to know about you?
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Question 30
Is there a story you’ve never told us that you’d like to tell now?
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