1. Who are the best storytellers in your family?
My father and my grandfather are probably the best storytellers in my family. My grandfather is really nice at capturing the focus of the listeners and my father is a good speaker.
2. Where and when are stories told in your family?
Stories are told mainly at family gatherings around the holidays- especially at the dinner table.
3. Identify one or two quintessential stories told in your family. Why are these stories so important? Why are they told and retold?
One of the big stories in my family is about my grandparents.--We call them Mémère (grandma) and Pépère (grandpa) because they're French-Canadian-- They lived in the same town growing up and saw each other (but didn't really know one another) when they would go to the movies. They actually went on a double date, but not with each other! At 17, they got engaged and began traveling the East coast and Europe at 21.
Stories like this are told and retold because they're an important connection to my family's past.
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