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Life Interview

From childhood to today, one question at a time

An interview about one person’s life, in order of time. The one answering talks; the one asking reads the card and then keeps quiet. It starts with the first memories and reaches today: at the end, the listener knows the other as they did not before. It works with a parent, a grandparent, a lifelong friend. Alone, it is your story laid out in a line.

Some questions from this deck

1. What is your first memory? Not the oldest one you were told about: the first that is yours.
2. What do you know about the day of your birth?
3. Describe your childhood home, room by room.
4. Who looked after you in your early years, apart from your parents?
5. What did you do when you were on your own, and nobody was watching?
6. What was your first day of school like, as far as you remember?
7. Who was your closest friend at eight, and what did you do together?
8. What were you afraid of, as a child?

The deck holds 28 more questions: they are drawn at random, on three levels of depth, from light to deep.

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