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Sixty questions
to ask at the table.

They are not history questions. Nobody needs to know a date to answer one. Each is tied to a moment in the book — but what it asks about is your family, and the oldest person in the room is the only one who can answer it.

 
 
 
All sixty as a printable PDF

Ask one, not twenty. The first answer is usually short and the second one is the real one, so leave the silence alone and wait. And write the answer down — an answer nobody wrote down is an answer you will lose.

All sixty, in the order of the book

The whole list.

If somebody says “oh, that’s not interesting”, that is almost always the door. What an older person considers ordinary is exactly the part that has disappeared from everyone else’s world.

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