Tennessee
Tennessee has mountains in the east, music in its cities and porches made for long talks. Your life here is a story worth keeping in your own words.
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What song takes you straight back to a Tennessee summer night, and where were you when you first heard it?
ToldForward gives your own stories a steady home. Each day brings one friendly question about your life and your views, and you answer in your own words, typed or spoken through your device's dictation. Until the day it passes to the people you name, your Tennessee record stays private and yours alone.
A few minutes at a time, whenever it suits you.
A friendly question about your life, your views or the people in it. Skip any you like.
Come back to an answer, add to it, or change it. Each one keeps its date.
Name the family and/or friends who will one day receive your whole record.
Tennessee
The three stars on Tennessee's flag stand for the state's three grand divisions: East, Middle and West Tennessee. Each one has its own landscapes and its own kind of pride. Which one is home for you, or has your life carried you across all three? Tell about the towns you lived in, the drives between them and the people who made each place feel like yours. Your map of Tennessee is one nobody else could draw.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park straddles the line between Tennessee and North Carolina, with main entrances at Gatlinburg and Townsend on the Tennessee side. For many people, a trip into those hazy blue ridges meant a vacation, a church outing or a first real hike. What do you recall about the cool air, the creeks or the winding roads? Tell it your own way, with all the small details you still carry around.
Memphis's Beale Street is famous as the place where the blues was born, and Nashville's Ryman Auditorium was home to the Grand Ole Opry for more than thirty years. Maybe you sang in a choir, played in a garage band or knew every word on the car radio. Which songs belong to your life, and why? The story behind a song you love can tell the people you choose more than you might guess.
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Someone you named asks what you thought about your first job, and the guide finds what you wrote, word for word. It is built to quote, not to invent.
First person, only in quotes
Your words appear exactly as you wrote them, with their date.
Third person, always
Everything else the guide says is about you, never in your name.
Nothing made up
If you never spoke to a subject, the answer is Unknown.
Only your own words
Nothing is written for you. Every word in your record is yours, as you gave it.
Text, never your voice or face
There is no recording and no likeness, so no one can make you seem to say anything.
Time before anyone reads
No one receives your record until at least 6 months have passed after you are gone.
Your terms, kept
You decide who receives it, and you can change your mind whenever you like.
Answer one friendly question a day, typed or spoken with your device's own dictation. Your words stay private while you live, ready one day for the people you name.