Questions you never asked
Mum was 83 when she died. I had countless opportunities to ask her every possible question.
On the day the Titanic sank, Granny celebrated her 21st birthday. But how? Mum celebrated hers at the end of WW2 - again, how?
Did Dad head out for a few bevvies, or put his head down and study that evening?
I blued all my birthday money (£10.50) on a slap up steak meal for myself and three friends.
I was so intent on discovering where people came from, names and dates, that I rarely asked the questions that turned statistics into personalities.
What didn't you ask? Or what did you ask that led to amazing discoveries?
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