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WRITING YOUR STORY

Some stories should never be lost.

Built, testing · The microphone (talk to Rye)

See how it works.

These are screens of the real door, made on the house’s own test road on 2026-10-05.

The words on these screens are a sample typed by the house, and they say so: “This is a sample, typed by the house to show the door. It is not a real person’s story.” No real person’s story is shown here.

Between your words and the read-back, Rye answers you in conversation. On these screens that answer is the room’s own steady line, because they were made on the test road and not with the live companion. The door opens with the release; until then, sign-up opens soon.

The door.

The door page: a box for your seat code with the button Open my room, and below it the form to open a seat: name, email and country, each optional.
Two ways in: Start your own subscription, or I was given a code (from a family member, a friend or a facility). Either way, it is the same room and the same seal. Nothing to download.

Your two codes.

A new seat code and a recovery code, each in a large dashed box, with the words Either code opens your story and the button Continue to my room.
Your seat code (a number, three plain words and two digits) and your recovery code (its own number, four words and two digits), shown once. Only the seat code is also sent to your email, if you gave one; the recovery code is never mailed. Either one opens your story.

Your room.

The room page: the button Read Rye's words aloud, ON, and Rye's welcome beginning Welcome. Thank you for spending a little time with me today.
Rye's welcome, in the owner's own words, read aloud by your browser's own voice. (This screen was made before the microphone; in a browser that can listen, your room now has one.)

The read-back.

The sample words read back inside quotation marks, and below them four large buttons: Read it back, That's me, Change it, Take it out.
Your own words, read back to you. Nothing goes into the book until you say “that's me” — and you can change it or take it out.

Care first.

A red-bordered alert at the top of the room with the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988, or chat online.
If distress is ever heard, the crisis line answers first — before anything else, in any state, with or without a seat.

Your book.

The book page marked Draft, with one telling in the teller's own words, a line saying where it came from, and a button Hear this part.
Only what you approved, in your own words, each part showing where it came from. A draft until you say “That's my story.”

The Quiet Hour.

The Quiet Hour page with the buttons Start the Quiet Hour and Back to the story.
A pause. Nothing is written while it is on. The music opens from the Radio Room and plays on your own machine.
Not sure what to do here? Questions about this page.

Is this a real person's story?

No. The words on these screens are a sample typed by the house, and they say so. No real person’s story is ever shown.

When does the door open?

With the release. Until then, sign-up opens soon — write to info@lovingmywords.com and a person will answer.