Your grandparents are walking archives. Ask your questions before the library closes.

Somebody in your family holds information that exists nowhere else. What the country looked like then, why the family moved, the story behind the photo nobody labelled, who they were at your age before they became a grandparent. None of it is written down anywhere. When they go, the specifics go quietly with them.

Ask three real questions next time you see them, and record the answers on your phone if they are comfortable with that. Ask what they were afraid of at seventeen. If yours are gone or not in your life, ask whoever is the oldest person who knows your family.