{"id":15817,"date":"2025-04-08T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/?post_type=story&#038;p=15817"},"modified":"2025-04-08T13:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:27:13","slug":"jean-grossart-and-alda-pinto","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/story\/jean-grossart-and-alda-pinto\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Grossart and Alda Pinto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duncan Grossart and Angie Pinto each gifted their mothers a LifeBook project. When they attended the same event in Kigali, Rwanda, they met and kindly recorded this joint video testimonial.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In their conversation, Duncan and Angie reflect on the LifeBook process, uncovering striking similarities between their mothers\u2019 experiences. They share how initial hesitations about discussing themselves quickly faded, thanks to the strong connections their mothers formed with their interviewers. They also discuss the ease of the process, the joy of revisiting old memories and photographs, and the profound impact that their LifeBook projects have had on their wider families.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Duncan put it, creating a LifeBook has been \u201cincredibly emotional and one of the best things I\u2019ve ever done in life,\u201d with his mother&#8217;s finished book destined to be \u201cone of the greatest treasures we have in the family&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alda-Banner.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alda-Banner.png 900w, https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alda-Banner-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alda-Banner-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LifeBook author Alda Pinto with her autobiography, <em>My Cherished Memories of Africa<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hear more from Duncan and Angie in their heartfelt conversation.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\r\n<iframe title=\"Duncan and Angie discuss their mothers\u2019 LifeBooks\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cOYYphS41lM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<\/div><\/figure><br>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jean&#8217;s LifeBook, <em>The Four Corners of the Country and Around the World<\/em>, and Alda&#8217;s, <em>My Cherished Memories of Africa<\/em>, were both completed in 2024.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover how two gifted LifeBook projects sparked new friendships, touched lives and created two families&#8217; &#8216;greatest treasures&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15420,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"Gifter Testimonial: Jean Grossart & Alda Pinto | LifeBook | Memoirs & Autobiographies","_seopress_titles_desc":"Discover how two gifted LifeBook projects sparked new friendships, touched lives and created two families' 'greatest treasures'.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"content-type":"","_metasync_otto_title":"","_metasync_otto_description":"","_metasync_otto_keywords":"","_metasync_otto_og_title":"","_metasync_otto_og_description":"","_metasync_otto_twitter_title":"","_metasync_otto_twitter_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"","_aioseo_title":"","_aioseo_description":"","_metasync_seo_title":"","_metasync_seo_desc":"","_metasync_breadcrumb_title":"","_metasync_primary_category":0,"_metasync_primary_product_cat":0,"_metasync_otto_disabled":"","_metasync_hreflang":"","_metasync_plugin_sync_ts":"","_metasync_robots_advanced":""},"story-category":[235],"class_list":["post-15817","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","story-category-gifter-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/15817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/story"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/15817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"story-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story-category?post=15817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}