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Her voice was the first thing I forgot.
My mom passed away when I was young. It's been 15 years now. I will always miss her.
Her voice was the first thing I forgot. It was like a defeat. It's when I realized she was actually gone.
I have this one video. My mom is filming me and my sister skating. You never see her. You only hear her behind the camera, laughing.
I still cry when I hear it. Not because I'm sad, but because I remember her. I can feel her again. It's happy tears. She laughs, she is just her. She is here, and I feel like she is never leaving me again.
Sometimes I get the feeling I didn't have a mom. But I know I did. That video makes her real.
Losing someone you love is maybe the worst feeling you can have. But then comes the feeling of forgetting someone you love. Their smell. Their laughter. Their tone. How they said I love you. The sounds you two made. That's when grief is real pain. It often comes after you feel you have healed a little.
I built NOVAVO for the sole reason of that video. I built it to honor my mother.
Yours is still here.
I have that one video. Your mom is still here, and you still get to ask her.
Send her a question from your own phone. She taps the link and answers by talking, with no app, no account and no typing. Her answer comes back in her own voice, with her words written down, and files itself into her book. Ask her another, and her book grows.
Your family listens free. You can download every recording and its words, free, any time. With the Printed Book and Family plans, her book also comes printed in hardcover.
Sondre, founder
Start with one question.
Pick a plan, and you can send her the first question tonight.
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