A memory coming soon

They say that history dies twice: once when the events cease, and again when the last person who remembers them passes away. For years, the Collins family was fighting that second death with simple conversation. They didn’t have dusty archives or leather-bound journals; their history was spoken, whispered, and sometimes shouted beneath the broad, sheltering canopy of the old Mulberry Tree . This ancient, gnarled giant was the family’s original classroom, where generations—from great-grandparents to fidgeting toddlers—sat side-by-side, tracing the roots of their lineage from the soil up.

But memories are fragile, and as the whispers grew quieter and the branches thinned with age, a stark truth settled on the Collins: too much was slipping away. With every elder who passed, a lifetime of lived experience, crucial context, and foundational wisdom vanished. This living story isn’t just a record; it’s the latest branch of that old tree, an urgently assembled collection designed to capture the names, the lessons, the joys, and the heartbreaks of the Collins lineage, ensuring the stories told under the mulberry’s shadow will finally be preserved for the generations to come.

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