March 1, 2001
By Jae-Ha Kim
Chicago Sun-Times
You can't press it into a
scrapbook or frame it. But voicemail messages offer the gift of forever--something
Lynn Petrak cherishes. Petrak has one of the last messages her mother left
for her before she died six years ago.
``Right after she died,
hearing her voice again comforted me so much,'' says Petrak, 31, of LaGrange.
``It was the first message that I would hear when I went into my voicemail
system. Later, after my children were born, I found myself playing the
message for my children, who had never spoken to their grandmother. They
were able to associate a voice to the photos they had seen of her.''
``There is something about
hearing a loved one's voice that is incomparable to anything else,'' says
Natalie Ochsner, Ameritech's consumer messaging director. ``A lot of people
will save a child's first message. Some will save a succession of messages
from a boyfriend or loved one.''
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