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Post by scrappintoee on Aug 24, 2016 5:53:36 GMT
That thread about where we grew up made me think of this. I have many events I WISHhhhhh I had photos of ! **Before I start----yes, I realize people did NOT take as many piks in the dinosaur ages when I grew up like they do now!!!  1. First time I flew, I was 3, so I have no memory at all. My grandmother said I was in a pink dress and white gloves (it was the sixties--hee hee )....I'm sure my Mom and older sister were all "dolled up", too, and I'm sure my Dad wore a nice hat ( think Jon Hamm on "Mad Men"), and he and my older brother wore ties / maybe even a nice blazer??? NO PIKS were ever taken by my parents or my grandparents the **entire** visit !  2. SCOUTS !!! I started as a Brownie (is that first grade?), and stayed in all the way until 8th grade. The ONLY piks I have are of the back of my head when I earned a lot of badges in 6th grade. I guess Mom had been drinking scotch all day again; hence, the bad piks... Other than THAT----I cannot believe that in NINE years of scouting, none of my friends' parents or leaders / helpers took piks! I would LOVE to have ONE----just ONE----pik of one of our many fun camping trips!!! Singing and cooking around the campfire, the all-night giggling, the talking about boys, levitating (remember THAT?---LOL!!), and our silly seyances...we never slept on those campouts! 3. Birthday and/or slumber parties I went to.....I do have a FEW piks from my 8th ----but many are blurry and/or I accidentally TORE them when I was a new scrapbooker and didn't know NOT to use glue sticks!!! I'm grateful that ONE of the piks isn't torn; it's me in my new nightgown, in front of the pretty cake my Mom made. I just wish the piks with my friends weren't torn! 4. I have very happy memories of my 7th birthday also, with my little group of sweet friends. I got lots of "Dawn" dolls, clothes, a Dawn house, etc. We played with them allll night long! **raise your hand if you remember DAWN dolls! ** 5. HALLOWEEN !!!! We loved dressing up, and it kills me that there are NO piks! Not even from my friends' parents who were very fun and into Halloween like we were! I would "kill" for even a couple piks of my baby brother and I when we were younger. 6. Concerts with my elementary, junior high, and high school bands (I played the flute). But hey, at LEAST there are tiny, crappy piks of the entire band and I in the yearbooks 7. Piks of my 4 closest girlfriends and I spending every. single. minute. at our neighborhood pool in the summers. Aside from general piks of us hanging out and playing in the water, I'd love a pik of my first (and ONLY!) faux/ trial swim competition! I had zero self-esteem as an overweight 15-year-old, so when I found out I was actually a very fast swimmer, that was a BIG deal !!! and I wanted to be on the swim team with my friends SO badly. The only reason I couldn't was because of my unreliable, alcoholic mom not wanting to give the money (my Dad paid PLENTY of alimony; she was just being mean) and she DEFINITELY couldn't help the other parents with transportation. How about YOU? |
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Post by lindywholoveskids on Aug 24, 2016 6:20:44 GMT
sorry to hear that you grew up with an alcoholic mom. I guess that pictures weren't a priority for her at least.
My parents took very few pictures, except when I was all dresses up.
some of my friends have a lot of pictures that they have shared from Jr. High and High school. fun!
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 24, 2016 7:09:53 GMT
On the other thread I mentioned that some of my favorite childhood memories were spent on my grandparents' farm with my cousins. There is only ONE photo of me and my cousins at the farm. I desperately wish my parents or grandparents had taken more photos of us.
I also wish there were more photos taken of me and my sister (who died when she was 16). I only have one really nice one of us together as teenagers.
I also wish there were more photos of me with my BFF. We've been friends for 42 years, since we were 6 years old. We only have a few pictures of us together from our days in primary school.
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Post by wellway on Aug 24, 2016 7:26:02 GMT
I was lucky, my parents had a camera and used it. It was a little box brownie! All the very early photos are B&W but I know the photos were colour by the time I was about 7.
I think most of the shots were outdoors so it would be nice now to have a couple of indoor shots, there are no Christmas shots and I have lots of lovely Christmas memories.
It's seems to have been a family thing, I have lovely shots of my Mum and her sisters. My favourite is one of the three of them before any of them were married, sheltering under a rainmac sitting on the ground in front of a small car, laughing.
I also have photos of my grandparents with their friends, laughing, being young. Problem is apart from my grandparents I have no idea who the other people are. So many questions.
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Post by ametallichick on Aug 24, 2016 7:48:46 GMT
I have very few pics of me as a child. My mom had all of the pics lost in storage when she didn't pay the bill. One of the ones I wish I had was a black & white photo of me sitting on a donkey in Tijuana when I was ten. There were pics of me as a bride for Halloween, Christmas, etc. it really bothers me. I have some pics but very few. My aunt has a lot because I was the only kid before my cousin was born and then we were always together. But, she won't let me look at them. I have a degree in commercial photography and she won't let me look through her pics!!
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Post by scrappintoee on Aug 24, 2016 8:52:14 GMT
ametallichick ---it's already so sad about your Mom's piks..... But then your Aunt's thing? Wow! I won't be nosey and ask WHY, but I hope someday she lets you see them!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2016 9:38:20 GMT
Any, I have maybe 5 of me when I was very young and one of me as a Teen.
My girls are amazed by that, we have taken tons of our girls and they have their own snaps also.
It's a diffrent time now then back then. Cameras are more affordable, back when I was younger in my neighborhood it was a big deal to spend on "extras".
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Post by marimoose on Aug 24, 2016 13:21:16 GMT
I just last night had this discussion with my almost 23yo son. I was telling him how back in the day there were so few pics taken, maybe one at an event and that was a gamble that our eyes would all be open, etc.... Film developing was a luxury of sorts. My Dad could have a roll of film that would last a year or two. This was an eye opener for my son, who sees his sister take selfie after selfie after selfie. He know just how many pics we took on our Disney trip last year. In many ways, we take far too many photos these days and it is hard to weed through to find the ones we really love. I guess it is better to have too many options vs the wish we had one.
I know there aren't many photos from my childhood and most of the ones that exist are lost somewhere in my Mom's townhome and hopefully some day I will get to go through them to share with my kids. I recall seeing one of me as a bride at the Halloween parade when I was in kindergarten. That is the only Halloween pic I know of. I know there were 2, yes 2, of my brother and I holding our Easter baskets when I was about 9, I have a handfull of pics that my grandma sent me that include a baby, a toddler and several school head shots. I also have some from when I was 12 that my best friedn's Dad took of us on one of their vacations that I went on. These are the only pics I have been able to show my kids of me as a kid. No Brownie, no Girl Scout, no drama production shots, no band front Pom Pom images. We went on the alaskan cruise as a child and I don't think any photos exist of that.I do wish that I had just one photo of me with my childhood teddy bear that was with me from before I could remember until it disappeared at girl scout camp, sure someone hid it away. Sheer devastation at age 10. What I do have are the memories permanently etched in my mind, I have to dig deep to see my bear.. No one will ever see the bangs my Mom cut so jagged, with chunks missing in the middle or the sheer ackwardness of my childhood, the haircuts, the clothing,...... My childhood poodle will always remain a well groomed puppy in my mind forever because that is what I choose to remember. My words, my descriptions are what I mostly have my childhood.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Aug 24, 2016 13:46:18 GMT
I just wish I had a good picture of me with my grandpa. He was very special to me. I only have one good pic of him from his wedding and that is it.
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Post by ntsf on Aug 24, 2016 14:04:27 GMT
I was lucky..my dad is totally into photography..even sold a few pictures along the way. so there are a few trips I can't find pics for..mostly there are some shots at every age of my life and there are movies.
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Post by freebird on Aug 24, 2016 14:09:14 GMT
I have zero photos of myself with my father. He walked me down the aisle at my first wedding, but I didn't buy that photo, that photographer is long gone now.
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Post by Linda on Aug 24, 2016 14:14:28 GMT
I was lucky - my mum was into photography and there are tons of photos from my childhood and I got my first camera at 7 and bought my first SLR at 15 so I've always taken photos too.
I wish I had photos of my dad - I have exactly two of him before my parents married in 1969 (he was 44 then) - one when he was 18 during WW2 in his uniform and one snapshot from his 40th birthday celebration. He grew up very poor during the depression (born 1925) and there just weren't pictures of his childhood. And then he was in the military - I suspect photos might exist from the late 40s/early 50s when he was first married but I've never seen them - if anyone has them it would either be my older sister or her mum - but possibly not, they didn't have much money either and they separated by 1955 and he was a bachelor soldier for nearly 15 years.
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Post by Karene on Aug 24, 2016 14:28:20 GMT
My dad took photos of us up to about our teens. It was the '60s and '70s and he had a movie camera with the big lights on the top. I have about 5 reels which are mostly when we were learning to walk and at Christmases. Some of the photos we are shielding our eyes from the bright lights!
My dad also had a polaroid and he loved using it. Some are in colour but most in black and white. In fact, I think all our old photos were either polaroid or on slides. I have digitized all the slides plus the photos so that we can all have copies. I even got the movies digitized.
What I wish I had were more photos of my parents and grandparents when they were younger. I have never seen a baby photo of my dad. They earliest was when he was 2 and then when he was about 12. I have a baby photo of my mother, but then not another until she was about 5 or 6. I have a baby photo of only one grandparent, my grandfather born in 1896. The other grandparents, not until they were about 10.
I love old photos. The oldest one I have is from 1858. I have made photobooks with the old photos for family members and they love them. I put a bit of history of each person with the photo.
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Post by cindyupnorth on Aug 24, 2016 14:33:40 GMT
I would LOVE to have ANYTHING. Any picture. As I said before, my childhood home burned down when I was a teen. I have nothing.
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Post by psoccer on Aug 24, 2016 14:56:15 GMT
I do have quite a few photos of when I was young, but there are some I wish my parents had taken. I used to do Tahitian dancing when I was younger and I remember the skirts my mom made as being so elaborate. I would love for a photo of me in the outfits. I also used to play softball. I remember us as like the bad news bears team, but probably all the teams were like that. We practiced in a field down the street from where our coach worked, she was a stripper and both her and her husband/boyfriend were so nice. I remember when one of the girls on the team started talking about another girl for being large, and they addressed it immediately.
My kids, I snap photos at every opportunity, they have way too many.
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Post by finally~a~mama on Aug 24, 2016 15:08:04 GMT
I wish I had a picture of my childhood home. There are a couple pics that show the corner of the house, but not the entire house. We had a trellis in front with roses climbing it. I'd love to have a picture of that too.
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Post by myboysnme on Aug 24, 2016 15:13:40 GMT
Me in Girl scouts - I have one in Brownies but no green uniform ones Me playing St Lucy in a play Me doing intermural cheerleading Me in gymnastics Me in 4H Me with my bicycle Me in my childhood bedroom Me with my mom as a young child (I have one with my mom as an infant) Me in my Catholic school uniform Me at my 5th grade birthday party and my 8th grade slumber party. Me on my 16th birthday.
I bought scrapping stuff for some of these things to journal but would love to have a photo.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2016 15:18:02 GMT
I would LOVE to have ANYTHING. Any picture. As I said before, my childhood home burned down when I was a teen. I have nothing. That is so sad, I'm sorry to hear that. I have tons of pictures of my childhood and lots of my parents when they were young. Pictures are something we always did. These days I hate having my picture taken so apart from a couple of recent Polaroids I have none of me and my husband together. I have hundreds from places we've visited and lots of him but not of us together, I regret that. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 24, 2016 15:33:33 GMT
... No Brownie, no Girl Scout, no drama production shots, no band front Pom Pom images. We went on the alaskan cruise as a child and I don't think any photos exist of that.I do wish that I had just one photo of me with my childhood teddy bear that was with me from before I could remember until it disappeared at girl scout camp, sure someone hid it away. Sheer devastation at age 10. What I do have are the memories permanently etched in my mind, I have to dig deep to see my bear.. No one will ever see the bangs my Mom cut so jagged, with chunks missing in the middle or the sheer ackwardness of my childhood, the haircuts, the clothing,...... My childhood poodle will always remain a well groomed puppy in my mind forever because that is what I choose to remember. My words, my descriptions are what I mostly have my childhood. LOL. I don't have many childhood photos either for all the reasons you listed, but I *DO* have the pic of me with the chunk out of the middle of my bangs in what must have been either kindergarten or first grade, and the worst part is I did it to myself--THE DAY BEFORE SCHOOL PICTURES. My poor mother was a hairdresser back in the day, and she was mortified to see that I had used her sewing scissors to give myself a little trim in front, ugh! There was no fixing that mess. I even have a very vague memory of actually cutting it, and recall liking the sensation of the hair being cut in the scissor blades. Funny how I have so few photos from birthdays, Christmases or other happy times, but I have a picture of that. To answer the question though, the one picture I wish I had would be one of me and my dad. My parents weren't big picture taking people. There are a few pics of him with my older siblings but none of him with me. He passed away when I was 11. I was his sidekick, following him around doing all kinds of stuff the same way my kid follows me around now. The sun rose and set on him as far as I was concerned, and he made me feel like I was the apple of his eye. He's been gone almost 40 years now and I still miss him. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2016 15:47:24 GMT
Any, I have maybe 5 of me when I was very young and one of me as a Teen. My girls are amazed by that, we have taken tons of our girls and they have their own snaps also. It's a diffrent time now then back then. Cameras are more affordable, back when I was younger in my neighborhood it was a big deal to spend on "extras". This is me too. My parents RARELY took any photos of me. I have some school photos and one or two when I was a baby/toddler, but that's it. I was very shy and hated to be in front of a camera, but still wish they had tried harder to get a snap or two. OTOH, I have way, way, way too many pictures of my kids. I took a lot of them, in the days of film, but my world exploded when I went digital. In all honesty, it's out of control and a headache to organize it all because I have hoarding tendencies and find it difficult to delete pictures unless they're really bad. My goal for the next year or so, is to get all of our family pictures sorted/organized and printed. I've been taking less as they've gotten older/more difficult, but still have tens of thousands to cull through. |
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Post by PLurker on Aug 24, 2016 16:05:37 GMT
My mother has few of her childhood because of the expense. They are rare and precious. I have a limited amount of childhood pictures so they are precious but not quite so as there are a bit more. Newly discovered photos found in a stored box become a little treasure chest. My kids, 16 and 19, probably have too many especially after my first digital camera allowing to chose to process only wanted photos. And there's the scrapbooking obsession.  Now my kids take everything with their phones. Rarely are they printed. Like on the "what stuff/keepsakes to get rid of" thread, I think because of the lack of a physical presence, unexpected treasure box finds may be a lost experience. If their phone dies, unsaved are lost. Even those stored may never be found. Physical digital storage are tiny and easily lost. Unless you know where to look and have username/passcode these days how do you stumble upon digital photos in the cloud? Their are tons, and tons of photos taken every day but how many will actually be available to find later? Are they less precious or special just because of the numbers? Only time will tell. |
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Post by mrsovy on Aug 24, 2016 16:58:50 GMT
I would love to have photos of me with my dad, I only have a couple. He passed away when I was 7 and my mother (an alcoholic) decided to burn everything of his, photos included not long after he died. All photos, his school reports, personal paperwork, all burnt.
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Post by ilikepink on Aug 24, 2016 17:17:25 GMT
My parents took a decent amount of photos -I'd love to have more, of course, with each parent - they focused more on me (only child). The one that frustrates me is my sweet 16 party--I had a "formal" in the basement of our house--I really just wanted to wear my prom dress again--and we took a group shot on the front steps - except that I'm cut out of the picture - mom didn't do such a great job. oh well.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Aug 24, 2016 18:41:03 GMT
When I had open heart surgery at 8 YO in 1965, the hospital put a big color photo of me in their glossy full size magazine that month. My parents did not save a copy. Not one! I would have bought a stack if it were my kid.
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Post by ametallichick on Aug 24, 2016 19:11:31 GMT
ametallichick ---it's already so sad about your Mom's piks..... But then your Aunt's thing? Wow! I won't be nosey and ask WHY, but I hope someday she lets you see them! I know. She said they're stuffed in drawers and she hast to shampoo the carpets! Not kidding! My cousin is turning 50 in October and I wanted to make her a scrapbook but I only have a few pics, being her cousin and not her mom! It really pissed me off. I was hoping to make copies of hers and just return them. She also has a pic of my grandfather when he was about a year old I wanted to scan. I used to work at a college and I had access to a very expensive and scanner I could have used! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2016 19:14:26 GMT
This is an interesting thread! My grandparents, though very poor, seemed to have access to photography when they were small. I have a photo of my grand mother's oldest sister, who was born in 1886. It is so cute! Little tiny thing wearing a ruffled dress, a bonnet & bare feet, sitting in a wicker chair on their dilapidated porch. There are tons of photos of my sister and me. But I have a couple of friends I grew up with & there are no photos of us at all. I think during the 60's & 70's standard cameras didn't take very good photos & maybe my parents were distracted by their divorce & single life. There was one trip tocalifornia & Disneyland when I was 7. The only photos taken were scenery.
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Post by melissa on Aug 25, 2016 1:03:53 GMT
There are not many candids from my childhood. My parents were horrid with cameras! Most of the more candids of my siblings exist because I took them. There are a few birthday party photos and my mom did take us for portraits of the kids now and then.. oh and the posed annual dance recital photos but that ended at 9 when I moved to a more ballet focused studio that did not do that sort of thing. I do have school pics too.
I wish I had more photos of my friends growing up, photos from my days at Girl Scout camp, photos of some of our favorite toys. We had a very cool fire engine and a model T that you could ride on.
I also wish I had some more photos of my mom. She hated photos of herself. She died in May, 13 years ago. The last photo of her was taken in December that year. The only reason she even agreed was because I made her pose with dd and a present dd made her. Funny thing is that my dad is moving and was packing up various things. He showed us that present, a ceramic "I Love You" that dd colored with markers and said it comes to us when he passes. At that moment, dd and I had no recollection of what that was from.. but I know now! Thanks for helping me summo that memory!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2016 1:23:29 GMT
I am a huge picture taker and I love going through all my mom and grandma's pictures. (Always have) Considering I was born in the 50's mom in 37 there are quite a lot of pictures TONS of them. So my grandmother took quite a few and we always did holidays at my grandparents and there are lots from them with the aunts/uncles/cousins etc. etc. Problem is the pics are faded and not as good now but impressed by the amount of them. With that being said I don't think my mom took many pictures of us - most were at grandparents house. I'll never forget I was about 10 or so and was signed up on a softball team - had our pictures done but my mom wasn't real good with taking us to our functions so after a few practices and pictures taken I never got to go back so I never got my softball pictures. I think for the next 45 years periodically i'd ask my mom if she'd take me to pick up my pictures. we laughed about it a lot but it made me real sad - I wanted my pictures dog gone it LOL I sure did my job taking pictures of my kids and all their activities and functions (my problem is I wasn't in many pictures because I was always taking the pictures so I'd make sure I wasn't in them (I was too fat) HA!!! Makes me sad I don't have pictures of me with my kids as they were growing up (
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Post by scrappintoee on Aug 25, 2016 11:36:24 GMT
I've enjoyed reading everyones' stories! I have SO many comments I want to make, but it'd take forever! I'm sorry about your house burning down, the mom that burnt everything after your Dad died !!  , and NO copy of the magazine when you had surgery !!!, etc......It makes me MORE grateful for the photos I DO have! My list of photos I WISHED I had seemed really long---but I DO have many wonderful photos---including my parents as toddlers--but I would LOVE to see piks of them as newborns! Since my Mom LOVED Christmas, I do have lots of precious Christmas photos of my family even from before I was born. One of my favorites is my older sister in her new white go-go boots, holding her new Barbie from Santa in front of the pretty tree I'm also VERY, VERY grateful that my older sister was very into geneaology; resulting in copies of paintings of some of our ancestors, dating back to the 1700's, and includes very detailed memoirs of our great (x5) Grandfather! I made a heritage scrapbook that begins in the 1700's up to 1996 (I might update it someday) .....I always said "she did the WORK, I got to scrapbook all the stories and photos!" On a related note, I don't know if this was just a Washington DC area/ East coast thing, but remember when PHOTO MATS (or maybe it was spelled "FOTO MAT?" ) first opened !?!? Oh, the excitement !!! At that time, it was the ONE place where they'd develop your film in an HOUR .....that was succch a big deal! :-) |
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Post by scrappintoee on Aug 25, 2016 11:59:02 GMT
Unless you know where to look and have username/passcode these days how do you stumble upon digital photos in the cloud? Their are tons, and tons of photos taken every day but how many will actually be available to find later? Are they less precious or special just because of the numbers? Only time will tell. ......very good points!!! Most of my heritage album is on CDs that I've given copies of to my Dad, brother, and sister. BUT, how long will CDs be viewable??? And as you said---passwords, clouds....arggggh! I've asked that if die before them, to PLEASE make sure that heritage scrapbook is kept in a sturdy, waterproof container....I want future family members to see it and even IF they did see it on the CDs I burnt, their phone, a cloud, etc....to me, a big BOOK they can actually hold is the best. The scrapbook my Mom created when my sister was a baby*** is SO precious---it just would NOT be the same to see it on some electronic device!!! Our family LOVES to hold it, marvel over it, not to mention--it's hard to have a bunch of people squinting to see things on a tiny screen--just another reason to preserve original scrapbooks! **our joke has always been that older sister was Mom's fave, and THAT is why her scrapbook is SO gorgeous---but since she was her first baby, she had more TIME to scrapbook! Mom was an artist, too, and all her hand-drawn designs with the baby photos on the black paper pages are still very vibrant and intact, and this was in 1958---before all of our acid and lignin-free materials!!! I'm rambling-----but my point is, if a scrapbook made in 1958 that my sister has kept in a closet among other albums is still VERY intact with no special storage or supplies, I can imagine the ones we've all made will last a verrrrry long time, if stored properly, of course! |
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, and NO copy of the magazine when you had surgery !!!, etc......It makes me MORE grateful for the photos I DO have!