Save the Story · Chapter 9 of 10

Love, loss & resilience

the loves that shaped you, the losses you've carried, what kept you going. Scan a square or tap Record — the paperback stays on the table; the voice stays in the app.

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Tell me about a love that shaped you.
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Is there a loss you've found a way to carry, that used to feel impossible?
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Tell me about the great love of your life — if there's been one.
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If there hasn't been a single great love — by choice or by chance — what kinds of love *have* there been?
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Tell me about a heartbreak you didn't think you'd survive.
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Was there a friendship that ended in a way you couldn't forgive — or that they couldn't?
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Tell me about the first person close to you who died.
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Tell me about the death you grieved longest.
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Was there a loss that wasn't a death — but felt like one?
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Tell me about a time in your life when you were truly afraid for someone you loved.
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Tell me about a difficult season in a marriage or long partnership — yours, or someone else's you watched.
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Was there a time you considered leaving — a partner, a job, a family, a country — and didn't?
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Tell me about a time you were lonely — the deep kind, not just on your own.
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Is there a regret you've made your peace with — and what did peace-making with it look like?
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Tell me about a betrayal — by a partner, friend, colleague, or institution — that took a long time to recover from.
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Was there an illness — yours or someone close to you — that changed everything?
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Tell me about a death you couldn't be at, or didn't get to say goodbye to.
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Was there a time you let someone down badly?
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Tell me about something you carried for years before you told anyone about it.
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Was there a time when you felt your life was unrecognisable to you — that you'd lost your shape?
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Tell me about something that broke — and didn't get fixed.
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Is there a person you weren't able to save — from grief, addiction, illness, themselves?
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Tell me about a kind word said to you at a low point that you've never forgotten.
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Is there a loss you've never quite mourned in the open?
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Looking back at the harder seasons of your life — taken together — what would you tell someone who's just entering one?
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