No 08
This is a prompted journal, one question per page, that a grandmother fills in over months: where she grew up, what her first job paid, how she met her husband, what she wishes she had known at thirty. The questions are specific enough that the answers come easily, and the finished book is the kind of thing that gets read aloud at a funeral decades later and kept forever.
It is the Christmas gift for a grandmother who says she does not need anything, and the Mother's Day gift that asks for something back. Give it with a good pen and a request for a chapter by spring.
Hardcover, about 200 pages with room to write, lined. It costs about what a card and flowers do, and it is the gift from the pile that the family will still have in forty years.
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