“The biggest regret is that I didn’t hear their stories,” she told me in an interview. But that has altered her approach to her own parents. Sparked by this regret, she and her siblings bought their father, who’s in his seventies, a subscription to StoryWorth. Each week the service sends an email that contains a single question (What was your mother like? What is your fondest childhood memory? And—yes—what regrets do you have?). The recipient responds with a story. At the end of the year, those stories are compiled into a hardcover book. Because of the poke of If Only, she said, “I seek out
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