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I don't really know how to respond to this. She literally asked me that nearly every time I saw her. Word for word, she said, "How's the photo business?" and/or "How many customers now?" Ask anyone in my family. This is kind of a mean comment that I doubt you'd say to me in-person, especially if you knew just how much I deeply cared for my grandparents.

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Mean is psychologically manipulating people, pimping out a dying loved one to raise money for a startup. I employed a rhetorical device called “hyperbole” to show you how your post comes off. I thought this was a cool story until I read this line. As someone who has lost loved ones, I cannot imagine exploiting their condition, reducing their life to an advertisement, for money or internet points. And I resent those that would. I have a grandmother with dementia and was considering showing your service to my wife until I read that line. Something to keep in mind.

I'm not raising money and this is a bootstrapped product. FWIW, those questions were things she asked me every time she saw me, not the last time she saw me.

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