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He's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721#t=17.32,19.08"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721/transcript/88222/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e like the thing um, my dad got from our house. Other than, um, like, what's what was in the safe, like our passports, everything like that. Um, but I've had him since I was a baby, and, like, he's really special to me, so, like, I'm glad I have him. We","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721#t=19.08,39.32"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721/transcript/88222/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S4:\u003c/strong\u003e lost everything. Um. There are a few things that stand out. One is that both my parents died, so I had all of my family history, um, which I saved a very little bit of, but boxes of report cards and immigration papers and photos from my parents, um, that no longer exist in the world. So, um, we lost all of Samara's journals that she had been keeping from when she was young. We lost a book that we had been making for my wife. Their mother? Oh, yeah. From when they were babies. Each year on Mother's Day, we would. It","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721#t=39.32,82.52"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721/transcript/88222/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e was like a little collage every year that we would do about it. Um, like, we would put photos of us with her from the year and, like, write a little note, like, Happy Mother's Day. We love you. Like that kind of thing. Like things that happened in the year, you know, that kind of thing. It was like a collage that we did. 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And so what I had done is I was writing them in a journal, vignettes and stories of things that happened that won't stay in your memory because they're not the big things that stand out, but they're the everyday things that make up the texture of your life. And so I had just saved all these little vignettes from the time that they were babies. Up until, you know, I don't remember when my last entry had been, but that was, you know, 30 to 50 pages of handwritten journals that unfortunately, I didn't grab when I left the house. Well,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721#t=125.52,160.24"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721/transcript/88222/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e this year we did buy a mother's day book, but I didn't actually like we didn't have time to do it. Well, we did, but we just. 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I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721#t=173.56,174.76"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721/transcript/88222/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e mean, I think so. I really want to continue, like, this is something I really want to continue and, like, keep alive, like, so that we just have it to memorialize, to memorialize everything. You know what I mean? 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Yeah, we have a lot of photos that we can remember things by, but. Um,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721#t=187.57,199.93"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721/transcript/88222/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S3:\u003c/strong\u003e I. I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721#t=200.05,201.17"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721/transcript/88222/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S4:\u003c/strong\u003e can't see starting that again. Um.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721#t=201.17,203.85"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721/transcript/88222/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S4:\u003c/strong\u003e It","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721#t=204.13,204.25"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721/transcript/88222/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S4:\u003c/strong\u003e was overwhelming. I, I because it feels like you're losing a part of your history and that these things can't be reclaimed because they're, you know, they say everything can be replaced, but, um, the things that fade from your memory are gone forever. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721#t=204.25,221.97"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721/transcript/88222/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S3:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. We're going to do. Sorry. That's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721#t=222.25,225.49"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721/transcript/88222/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e like, gotta remember that for a while. Anyways, um, you know, something that was really important to me that I lost. I mean, it was less of, like a thing, like less of, like a singular object and more of a, like, space. But I would say, like our kitchen, like we have a long, long, history of cooking. And I love, love to cook and bake. And I love that everything. Like I could, I knew where everything was and I was so comfortable there that I really loved. Like whenever we went on vacation and I tried to cook something, I was like, I can't do it. Like I can't find any of my stuff. Which sounds really snobby, but it's true. Um, yeah. So I really I just miss the space. And because sometimes I feel like the memories we made in that space are kind of, like, not less present without it actually. There, you know what I mean? But that it actually existing. We,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721#t=225.53,286.09"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721/transcript/88222/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S4:\u003c/strong\u003e uh, had I was up there when we had, um, Samaritan's Purse go through, which they were lovely people from all over the United States who were doing service to come out and comb through people's toxic waste. Um, and there are really nothing except. 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My parents went to Hawaii and they came back with these jade burial markers that I don't know how much of this is true and how much of it is just what they said, but supposedly these are markers that were from China, and they were jade, and they were burial markers which supposedly were imbued with the spirit of the person who had died, such that the tradition was if you wore them and you rubbed them, that you would be imbued with the best characteristics of that person. And I had one. My parents had given one to each of the members of my nuclear family. So I had mine, and I guess I had one of my parents that I didn't remember having. But in the Samaritan's Purse search, somebody came up with this jade figure that's about that big. And, uh, it's that's what it is. So that was the one thing that they found that was that survived the fire that is resembles what it was before. 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So I still have, like, these things that I don't really want and should probably give away like that. Like I guess brought me comfort then, but like, I don't really wear now just because. So it's like, I mean, they're too heavily associated with that time. And also it was just kind of like desperately like buying stuff just to wear. Oh,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721#t=408.41,469.09"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721/transcript/88222/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S3:\u003c/strong\u003e I see. 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So in the immediate aftermath of the fire. I was feeling as though not only did I not have anything, I didn't want anything. And so my experience of trying to replace things has been I don't want anything. And but I need clothes to wear. So I have, you know, a couple pairs of jeans. I have this one short sleeve shirt and, um, I've been living in t shirts and jeans because I've been working at home. But oddly and sort of funny from a matter of timing. I'm starting a new job, so I had to buy clothing that I can wear to the job, and all of a sudden my closets looking more full. Um, the other thing that's funny about it is that when you don't have anything, you want everything to be the thing you want it to be. So it puts a lot of pressure on every single purchase. Everything has to be right. Because why would you carry around something you don't want to have? So that's been it's been slow and very, uh, particular, right I do. You had asked at the beginning what we had lost and what we had found. And I think that one of the things that we found is that we're okay. Right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721#t=473.69,569.02"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721/transcript/88222/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S4:\u003c/strong\u003e As","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721#t=569.22,569.5"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164612/file/299721/transcript/88222/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S4:\u003c/strong\u003e a family. We're okay. We've been making it through together. And I think that this tendency to want to know how the future is going to unfold before you. Occasionally, the curtains pulled back, and you get to understand that you don't get to choose, that sometimes things will happen to you, and understanding that all you can do is the next right thing, as opposed to knowing the 7 or 8 or 10 or 50 steps that you're going to take in the future. And and accepting that that's how it's going to be, I think, is a lesson that I've internalized. 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