My Living DiaryYour life. Your voice.

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The story behind My Living Diary

In this short film, Geuzane Castro tells how a Brazilian hairdresser who arrived in the United States with one suitcase started recording her memories out loud — and why she built a place where anyone can turn spoken memories into a real book, in their own voice, kept private until they choose to share it.

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My Living Diary

Chapter · 1997

From Brazil to a New Beginning

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A coastline seen through an airplane window at sunset, the shoreline curving away below
Thematic imageThe coast, seen from the airplane window

I came to the United States in 1997. I still see the airport: my mother crying at the gate, and me promising her I would come back soon. I believed it when I said it.

From the window of the plane I watched the coast of Brazil slip away, and I understood that the life I had known was ending and another one was beginning without asking my permission.

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Everything in this book is private by default. How your voice and stories are protected