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I have been trying to think of a way not to just share one parent but whole families. With many of our ancestors gone, and what we know about to be gone. I want grand children to know where they came from not just names but the people Before them and some of the stories. How can that be done and may it could stop the changing of history if we could. :)

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Another friend made the same point to me. I tried to do it by creating annotated picture books and giving them away. There are also memorial sites where people can write about the deceased. And there's Story Corp.

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Very good point RB, and Ted Chiang’s the bomb. I def should have given a shout-out to real parrots, and made mine not just smart, but super-smart. My friends reported meeting a parrot once, I think he lived in a cage at a Florida restaurant, so he might have been my inspiration for Jim. Anyway, his favorite exclamation was “No fair!” A saying with wide application, and I expect he had some idea of what it meant. I still use it a lot.

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