My friend, Beth Finke, teaches a class in memoir-writing at the Chicago Public Library. Most of her students are senior citizens. She has long observed how writing a memoir can provide the impetus for senior citizens to reconnect with long lost friends and family members. It turns out that there’s now a study showing that writing memoirs is also good for your health!
Beth says all this better than I can, you should check out her post:
miltotto.com 
Wow! Thanks for the shout-out, Milt. I know people reconnect via Facebook and such, too, but something about sharing an entire well-thought-out essay with someone from the past seems to go a little deeper, and, I believe, last a lot longer.
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