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| The Story of a Lifetime: A Keepsake of Personal Memoirs | 
 enlarge | Authors: Stephen Pavuk, Pamela Pavuk
Publisher: Triangel
Category: Book
List Price: $41.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 24497
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Plum
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 0970062680
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9780970062680
ASIN: 0970062680
Publication Date: September 2000
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 All the questions you've ever wanted your kids to know. June 12, 1999
107 out of 110 found this review helpful
The story of a lifetime is a wonderful book. Not only is the flow of the book very easy to follow, it can be started at any point in life. Whether you want to keep an ongoing story of your life, or just want to remember and leave behind a legacy. The questions are clear and simple yet very thought provoking. An excellent gift to or from parents. I love the fact that all of the questions are already there, it's up to the writer to answer the questions he or she wants. I am definitely looking forward to leaving this reminder of me to my family.
Fantastic, An extremely thoughtful gift January 6, 1999
42 out of 43 found this review helpful
Far and away the best way I have come across to bring out all the hidden and forgotten memories of a lifetime, some of which may bring tears as well as smiles to your face. I can now pass on to my children, and their children my experiences and thoughts. I intend to purchase one for my wife as soon as I can squeeze it into my Social Security budget. Many thanks to the author.
 Capacious, exhaustive, but badly organized August 23, 2001
38 out of 42 found this review helpful
I was impressed by the thickness of this volume; I wasn't expecting anything quite this big. And each page has lots of lines on it. But each question is given a relatively small space for the answer to fit in, and there is absolutely no way to find a particular question, or a particular topic, without reading the entire book and putting post-it notes in as bookmarks. I would have loved an index at the end, or a table of contents to the sections. Also, parts of it are really excessively sentimental - not everyone who's filling out one of these reads Simple Abundance compulsively, and the authors don't seem to realize that.
 the story of a lifetime January 4, 2000
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
A terrific guideline for family members to recount their lives. Formatted to allow the user to start anywhere and provides many thought provoking questions that otherwise may have been forgotten momories. A great gift to a loved one to get back from them.
Beware of Dust Cover November 7, 2006
28 out of 31 found this review helpful
I bought this edition of this book as well as the "revised edition" (blue-green cover) to give to my baby's grandparents on the occasion of her first birthday. This ("plum") edition comes with a dustcover that goes on and on about parents growing old, death, funerals, etc, told from the perspective of friends and family, rather than that of the person who is to fill out the book. While I think it is understood that a book like this is something that families will want to read after a person dies, I thought that the cover was morbid and inappropriate to give people who are busy living and don't want to dwell on getting old, death, and dying. If the dust jacket needed to speak to those topics I think it would have been far more appropriate to discuss them from the perspective of the person who is to fill out the book. It almost feels like the book is ignoring that person and treating them as someone who is already dead. If you are giving the book to someone who is on hospice, it's probably great. Otherwise, give the "revised" edition. Luckily you can take the dust cover off of this one, but the book isn't very attractive without it. The "revised" edition comes with a card that has the morbid stuff on it, easily thrown away.
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