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People @[email protected] · 2026-09-05 · 09:48 UTC

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Flominator @[email protected] · 2026-07-12 · 18:14 UTC

Today's #grandma recording started with how annoyed she was after her little sister was born. She had hoped for somebody to play with, but that one was crying most of the time. Her sister wouldn't sleep at night, if the lights were out, but their mother was too scared to use the stearin candles she had bought for this occasion, until somebody recommended her to use something like an altar lamp at church, an oil lamp with a small wick and only a small flame. That did the trick, the child slept.

Later, grandma "told" me about her plans of mounting some hooks to a closet in her living room/bedroom, so she could hang her trousers there, instead of putting them on top of it.

Ultimately, she would ask me, if my life is ok and if I'm generally happy with it. Then she started ranting about two divorced relatives and how they had been spoilt at home and never had to take care of themselves, only to end with how she overtook her grandma's farm with age 21 and how scared she was every night. Since then, she wasn't scared about many things anymore, except thunderstorms and lighting.

When looking at the file name of the next recording, to see if I'd do another one, I discovered that this recording of the 4th of September was the last one for 2022. This year had only taken me three months to transcribe, as opposed to the five, four and eight months the previous years took. But those also only were 27 recordings, while 2021 were 47 already.

So this it: next week (maybe with a little delay, since there is #July2026ConnectAThon at #WikiTree), I will start with the remaining 124 recordings covering the last ten months of her life. So far, I have been feeling pretty ok when hearing her voice, but I'm already terrified of how it will be to listen to her exhausted and broken voice towards the end.

Thank you so much for those extra characters, @david

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