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Milestone books, made for fictional families

Every example here was made with AI from a template, for a family we made up. Your book uses your names, your answers and your photos.

Prakash and Sumana seated side by side on a decorated low wooden platform at home, wearing jasmine and rose garlands, smiling at someone off camera.

Example book · made with AI for a fictional family

Sixty Years of Appa: Prakash Hegde

For Appa (Prakash Hegde), from Shruti in Bengaluru, Karthik in Pune and Amma (Sumana), with photos and wishes from 18 relatives through the family link. A fictional family.

A large hardcover in the Heritage style, made for Appa's shashtipoorti at home in Bengaluru. Six decade chapters run from the areca gardens of Sirsi to the grandchildren, with an "India in 1966" page. Doddamma's blessing, sent as a Kannada voice note, is written out in English on the last page, and the QR code plays her voice. His granddaughter appears in photos her own mother added.

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  1. A restored black-and-white photo from the 1970s of eight-year-old Prakash standing between his parents in front of a tiled-roof house with areca palms behind.

    The 1970s. Appa was the boy who knew every areca tree on the lane, and still came home late for dinner.

  2. A faded 1980s colour photo of Prakash in his early twenties at a bank counter, smiling, with a ledger open in front of him.

    His first job, in 1988, was at a cooperative bank in Hubballi. He kept the appointment letter for 38 years, folded inside his Bhagavad Gita.

  3. Prakash and Sumana on a sofa at home with their grown-up children Shruti and Karthik and a five-year-old granddaughter on Prakash's lap.

    From all of us: you taught us to save first and spend on books. Happy sixtieth, Appa. The next chapter is yours.

Annamma and Thomas, both in their seventies, sitting close together on a cane sofa on a verandah, holding hands.

Example book · made with AI for a fictional family

Annamma and Thomas: Fifty Golden Years

For Ammachi and Appachan (Annamma and Thomas Kurian), from their four children's families in Kottayam, Kuwait and Houston. A fictional family.

An heirloom layflat in the golden jubilee style, revealed at the family lunch after their thanksgiving at church. The wedding album was photographed page by page with the guided camera step, and each of the four families has its own chapter. Grandchildren appear only in photos their own parents added.

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  1. A restored black-and-white wedding photo from 1976 of young Thomas in a dark suit and Annamma in a white saree and veil, standing outside a church.

    January 1976. The wedding was fixed over one cup of tea in Pala, and Appachan says he still has not finished that tea.

  2. A faded 1980s colour photo of Annamma and Thomas in their thirties with four young children in front of a Kerala house, a cow tied nearby.

    Four children in eight years, one rubber estate and one very patient cow called Kunjumol. Ammachi ran all of it.

  3. Annamma and Thomas at a long lunch table at home, surrounded by their grown-up children and grandchildren, everyone laughing.

    From the Kuwait family, the Houston family and both Kottayam families: fifty years on, you still save the last appam for each other.

Shabana, sixty, in a mint-green salwar kameez, holding a bouquet of white flowers and smiling in a sunny courtyard with bougainvillea.

Example book · made with AI for a fictional family

Ammi Retires: 34 Years of Teaching Chemistry

For Ammi (Shabana Rizvi), from Faraz, Zoya and Abbu (Imtiaz), Lucknow, with wishes from her three sisters. A fictional family.

A Classic hardcover for the family dinner on Ammi's last day of school. Chapters follow her postings from Sitapur to Lucknow, with the family's thank-you and the wishes for what comes next. Captions are in Hinglish, written from Zoya's voice notes.

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  1. A faded 1990s colour photo of young Shabana in a school chemistry lab, pouring liquid into a test tube while three schoolgirls watch.

    1992, pehli posting, Sitapur. Ammi took two buses to school every day and never once missed the morning assembly.

  2. A 2000s photo of Shabana at a dining table checking a pile of notebooks with a red pen while her two children do homework beside her.

    Har raat, the same dining table: our homework on one side, her forty notebooks to check on the other.

  3. Shabana laughing at a family dinner table at home, with her husband and grown-up son and daughter raising glasses of rose sherbet.

    Ab aapki baari hai, Ammi. The garden, the Urdu poetry you never had time for, and the Srinagar trip you kept postponing for us.

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