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To my daughter, Lilly. I think you accidentally killed me with a bow. I'm not mad, I lived a good life. Just unfortunate is all, I still love you.
To the rest of my children, Jason, Kain, Daisy, and Maggie. You were all great children and I love you very much.

When I was born, it was just me, my mother and my slightly older brother. We were in a very large settlement but everyone had died or left as far as I could tell. My mother clothed us and fed us, then my brother didn't feed himself and died. So it was just the two of us. We started clearing out all the bones and made a massive graveyard just north of the village. I had never seen so many bones, easily a screen and a half full. I found a knife on one of the bodies and alerted my mother to it. She picked it up and kept it safe. I mentioned that due to the amount of dead people and all the knives around, it looked like maybe the village was murdered. My mother didn't seem to care, getting back to work.
We cleaned up the place and organised it ready to farm again, I even started getting some pies ready. An Eve and her new child arrived shortly after and started hanging out a bit doing their own thing, we didn't mind.
Eventually my mother was getting very old and she followed me out of the village to pass on her gear. Then she said "Son. While we're alone..." I replied "Yes, mother?". Then she said "I was the murderer. I murdered everyone". Before I could ask her why or any other questions she died. I was pretty shocked. I made some pies then ran into the wilderness with my three knives and eventually died very far away, nowhere near any villages, where my body and gear is too obscured to see. I didn't want anyone else to get all these knives.

I had some good ones tonight.

One was a very rough start. My mother had a baby already and no home but she kept us both alive while we wandered. Once we both grew up enough we started a camp and ran into another eve. Her and her kids only lasted a minute or two. My older brother vanished and probably died. My mother and I scrounged whilst trying to set up a small farm. Waiting for the seeds to grow. She had another child and then died. I was just a boy so there was very little I could do. I gave the baby my last berry as I was already near starving and raced off to find us some more. When I came back they were gone so I can only assume they ran off and died.
I was feeling pretty low. I had lost everyone and I was starving with no food to be found anywhere. On my last pip I found a berry bush and and basket. I filled it and myself and ran on. I found a grave with a fur hat, pants, shoes and even a knitted wool top! I ventured on and found a small wetland farm with a stockpile of carrots and dry seeded plots. I made this my new home. Before I settled in, I decided to run back with a cart and pick up some interesting and useful things I saw on the way. When I got back to my original camp I found a new eve and her baby. They were tending to the couple of plots I had left. I said hi and told her about the camp I found and got her to follow me. Once we got there we started to work and she had another baby.
Then she promptly died.
Her first child started working the farm while I hand fed the baby carrots until it could look after itself and help out. I scouted around and found another eve at another dead village. I invited her back too. The farm started to thrive and grow. One of my adopted children started making pies and someone was smithing, it was wonderful. Eventually we attracted some bears and I think I lagged into one and died at age 47.
I really hope they were all ok.

My last life tonight had a similarly bad start.
I was born into a small village with a dozen family members. As soon as I came of age, I walk down to the farm and my mother said to me "keep the farm going" as she died. Then I noticed everyone was dying and I panicked. I ran north as I was starving and on my last pip yet again I find a berry bush. I eat my fill and take one for later as I run back to camp. I get there and just as I start to gwt hungry, the carrots start growing. I was saved. And then a surprise, my slightly older brother comes back! He was the only othet survivor! He was off exploring so I told him what happened. We worked and expanded the farm, and he got to making pies. Eventually I started having children. Six boys in a row... most of them survived but at least one ran off as a baby and I wasn't going to chase him.
I finally had two daughters and some new eves joined us. Every was going pretty great. Then I saw one of my daughters murder someone with a bow... I was so disappointed. She ran off and dropped the bow. I picked it up to keep. She came back with just an arrow claiming it wasn't her and she just found this arrow. She said that the killer had a hat on and she didn't. That confirmed it for me because I was the only witness and the only one who knew she was wearing a hat. I ran off and hid the bow best I could, but I was old now. I thanked my brother and told him we did well, told my sons I loved them and then I died.

Yeah that's exactly what I meant. There's no way to just wave or nod or express anything quickly. Not sure the best way to implement something like that but text chat by itself is a bit too clunky

I have had many good lives with wonderful parents. But my favourite so far was from tonight.
It was just me, my mother and a slightly older brother. Our mother was an Eve and she had just found a nice empty village for us. We started to rebuild and replant the farms and fix it up and were joined by a sister and another Eve and her children. Things were going great for a while and everyone was working hard. The previous inhabitants had locked a bear up in a small room so we left it be. Eventually though someone let it out and over time this bear took us out one by one. I think I was the last, but my brother may have survived.