Combing Through My Dead Dad’s Gmail Account

On digital heirlooms and ongoing conversations

Carly J Hallman
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readApr 30, 2021

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A recent Wall Street Journal article, “The Family Heirlooms That Our Children Don’t Want,” apparently resonated with millennials, as many of my peers were sharing it on social media. The gist is that boomer parents have a lot of stuff, and often, for various reasons, their adult children don’t want the stuff…

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Carly J Hallman
Human Parts

Just another 30-something writing about the internet, nostalgia, culture, entertainment, and life. Author, screenwriter, copywriter. www.carlyjhallman.com