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Another possible alternative might be to have the younger relative find a letter, diary or something like that written by and set aside by the older relative. The text could recount events from the...
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2019-12-11T18:55:49Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T03:03:50Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Another possible alternative might be to have **the younger relative find a letter, diary or something like that written by and set aside by the older relative.** The text could recount events from the time period of the older relative, and as the younger relative reads it he/she could reflect on how what's written differs from the world they are used to or what they have been told about the time period during which the older relative lived. It might not work in your _exact_ situation, depending on the specifics of the story you are writing, but don't underestimate the impact a document of its own time can have on a future individual. The revelations can believably be made profound. The hardest part would probably be to make it reasonably believable that this diary, letter or whatever has actually been sitting in limbo with no one considering it either important enough to look over or unimportant enough to throw away, for a good part of a century.
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System
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2013-09-26T09:36:56Z (about 11 years ago)
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