The first story I listened to was a love story between one of the narrators and his late wife. The audio is paced as if we the audience are eavesdropping on a conversation between Eddie Chang and his daughter Tria as they comfort each other in their grief for the woman they both loved (Tria’s mom and Eddie’s wife). In this audio in particular it’s very crisp, and you can hear the emotion in both of their voices from sighs to light laughter, but Eddie mostly leads the conversation. It’s not very structured, so the two are not following a script for their conversation. It is simple and natural, and a powerful message is able to be conveyed, and they don’t lose scope of the main topic either, which was very impressive as they are discussing someone who meant so much to them both. There’s also no music playing as they are talking, until Eddie says that grief makes you feel closer to your loved one, and by saying this, it puts the audience in a reflective mood.
The second story I listened to was also a love story, but told by the couple Julia Helfman and Joel Helfman, who have been together for 70 years. This is a very conversational audio as the two go back and forth in banter and correct each other on the accurate timeline of their relationship. You can hear the emotions (love and happiness) clear as day in their voices, as there is no music underlying the audio until the end when they laugh with each other. It’s a three-minute audio, just as the first audio recording I listened to was, and with both time constraints, it concisely conveyed how fun each love story started out as, as both couples originally started out as friends before venturing into something more.