It’s been there for over a year now.
Sitting right on my computer desk.
One of the things I brought home from Richard’s apartment was that microcassette recorder pictured above. There were several cassettes, all looking new and unused.
I finally popped them into the recorder and hit play.
They were mostly blank.
But on one was Richard’s voice, “Testing one, two, three, four, five…” Yes he was thorough.
It was nice to hear his voice again, like it sounded just 14 months ago. I wish there had been more.
We have many videos of the kids. I haven’t developed the courage yet to watch them. But I think they were all from a time when he was young, still just a child. As he reached the teens and young adulthood he didn’t cooperate much with the movie thing.
So this cassette may be the only recording of his adult voice.
I’d like to hear the real thing, live.
But maybe it’s better than nothing.
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