“My grandmother kept every issue of LIFE since 1962. Found the box in the garage this week. It smells exactly like her house.”

“The moon landing issue was taped to my dad’s workshop wall for thirty years. It’s framed in my hallway now.”

“I learned to read by sounding out the captions under the photographs. My mother would point, I would guess.”

“We met in a waiting room in 1971. He handed me the copy he’d finished. Fifty years later, I still have it.”

“Every Friday the mailman brought it, and every Friday my brother and I fought over who got the cover first.”

“A photo in the 1968 issue showed my hometown. I didn’t know anyone outside it had ever cared to look.”