Kentucky
Kentucky is a state of rolling hills, deep caves and people who know how to tell a good story. Yours, and the way you think about things today, are worth putting into words of your own.
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Are you the storyteller among your friends, or the one who always listened, and who taught you?
Kentucky has a way with a story, and it would be a shame for yours to lose its timing and its turns of phrase. ToldForward keeps your telling just as you give it, typed or dictated. Your humor, your pauses and your favorite sayings all stay intact, held privately while you live and passed one day to the people you have chosen.
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Kentucky
Under the rolling hills of Kentucky lies Mammoth Cave, the world's longest known cave system. Above ground, the short Heritage Trail leads to wide views of the Green River. Places like this have a way of sticking with you, whether you toured the cave on a school trip, fished the river with a friend or simply drove past the signs a hundred times. What corners of Kentucky feel most like yours, and what happened there that you would want someone to know?
Abraham Lincoln was born in rural Central Kentucky, and visitors can see the place where his life began at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park. It is a reminder that every life, even one that grows very large, starts in a particular place with particular people. Your own beginnings matter in just the same way. Where did your story start? Who was around, and what was the place like? Those are the details the people you choose will be most curious about.
Kentucky became the 15th state on June 1, 1792, and in all the years since, its towns and hollows have produced a deep store of stories, songs and sayings. Every family and friend group seems to have a storyteller, the one who can make an ordinary trip to the store sound like an adventure. You may be that person, or you may be the one who always listened. Either way, the stories you carry and the way you tell them are worth keeping.
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Each day ToldForward offers one friendly question about your life and your views, and you can answer in your own words by typing or with your device's own dictation. What you write stays private while you live, and you name the people who will one day receive it.