Kat - That's a tough one, and difficult to answer; probably the best advise is just do what YOU think is best. Having said that, here is how I handle it. Print out the entire recording. Now read it, trying hard *not* to remember what the recording sounded like. What you will find is that reading it is much different from hearing it. The next step is to pick out passages that you think are the very best at keeping the tone and implications of the message your father was using. Put these in quotes exactly as they are said, forgetting sentence structure, grammitical usage, etc.; keep the *flavor*. The rest you can change to suit you as a writer - consider only the message here.

Hope this helps a bit.

Lyle