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A Meaningful 80th Birthday Gift: Their Life Story in a Book

Eighty years is a lot of stories. Give them a year to tell them, and the family a hardcover to keep.

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A grandfather at his eightieth birthday party holds his Fablr hardcover, with family and a cake around him.

The real version of the story

At every 80th birthday, someone stands up and tells a story about the guest of honor, and someone else says that’s not how it happened. The guest of honor knows the real version. This gift is how the family finally hears it.

Fablr gives your grandparent a year of voice conversations with a biographer that asks about their life and remembers their answers. The family gets a hardcover of their stories, in their own words, with a code on each recorded chapter that plays their voice.

Giving it at the party

  • Write the first question in the birthday card.
  • Ask the grandchildren to each bring one question to the party.
  • Let the guest of honor start the first conversation whenever they like. There’s nothing to ship until the book is ordered.

A gift the whole family joins

People who come up in the stories can be invited to add what they remember about those moments, so the book holds more than one voice. Photos help too: hold one up, and the biographer asks who, when and what happened.

At their own pace

Short visits or long ones, whenever they have the energy. The biographer picks up next time where they left off, and there’s no deadline inside the year.

Questions for eight decades

  1. What’s your earliest memory of your mother?
  2. What did you want to be at twenty, and what happened instead?
  3. What was the best year of your life?
  4. What has changed the most since you were young?
  5. What would you tell your great-grandchildren?
At the kitchen table, a granddaughter scans the printed code on a chapter of an open Fablr hardcover with her phone camera.

If you would rather someone else asked

A biographer who asks the next question.

Fablr holds these conversations by voice, at whatever pace suits them. It follows up the way a good listener does and remembers what they said last time. The stories become a hardcover, with a code on each chapter that plays it in their own voice.

Conversation
15 hours over one year. No schedule.
The book
Full-color 8.5×11 hardcover, included. Free US shipping.
Price
$149, billed once. No renewal.
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Questions, answered.

Yes, or a 75th or a 100th. The conversations go at their pace, and there’s one button to start.

Yes. Put the first question in the card, or tell them about it in person. The conversations begin whenever they’re ready.

They can stop anytime and pick up later. The biographer remembers where they left off.

Yes. They can hold up a photo or keepsake, the biographer asks about it, and it becomes part of the story.

Every story they tell is kept as they go, and the family can order the book whenever it’s ready.

Give them a year set aside for stories.

$149 billed once. No auto-renewal. 30-day money-back guarantee.

Give Their Story $149