My Diary
2024 · Loss Only Me

Losing My Father

Recorded in memory of my father · 2024 · spoken in Portuguese

A vintage cassette recorder and a blank cassette resting on a dark wooden table beside a lit candle and a closed leather album
Thematic imageA photograph cannot say your name

Listen in My Voice

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After he was gone, what I wanted was not a photograph. I wanted his voice.

One message. One recording. Anything at all. There was nothing. We had photographs, and photographs are precious — but a photograph cannot say your name the way your father said it.

That absence taught me how priceless a voice becomes once it is gone. This chapter is the reason My Living Diary exists.

Read the original transcript, word for word

and after, I wanted to hear him. just his voice. one message, one recording, anything. and there was nothing. we have photos, we have photos yes, but a photo doesn't say your name the way he said it...

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People

  • My father

Places

  • Brazil

Dates

  • 2024

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