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flea ([personal profile] flea) wrote2009-06-22 04:21 pm

another sort of blast from the past

richmond

I am about to turn 14 here, and my mother is 36 coming up on 37 - exactly the same age I am now. It's August 25, 1986, at Crazy Aunt Nancy and Billy's house in Richmond. We visited my great-grandmother Mary in the nursing home on that trip, and Mary thought my mother was her daughter Porter, who at that time had already been dead for 11 years.

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Me and my siblings, Christmas 1986. This is my One True Haircut; I think I'm on my way back there right now. Possibly even that color, if I can justify the expense. (Notice that Nate is on Jane's back and Jane is on my back and I am very strong!)

[identity profile] cassandre.livejournal.com 2009-06-23 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
It's amazing in the first one how much you still look like your teenage self, and in the second one how much you look like your daughter.

[identity profile] ellenbs.livejournal.com 2009-06-23 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
I totally didn't notice that until you said it, but completely true! Very attractive family - all three generations.

Is that artichokes in the first photo? I need to go buy some - I haven't had artichokes in months.