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despite the fact that such a skill has been overrun by the
digital cams at home, the PC that can pump out the cheaper pics that are so clear
that one wonders why they ever paid another to
prop them up against a hanging piece of old felt
squashed against family members in hope of a 
spontaneous smile,
the family portrait photographer
still huffs it to the job
be them with family or without
in some way jealous of the families that come in &
in other ways disgusted,
but either way they document lives for the 
moments &
find themselves withering away at the job
wondering what will happen when the digital eliminates their occupation
entirely---
they tell themselves that they will freelance,
but at the age that they are pushing
it just isn’t realistic, because all the kids have taken over 
even that aspect of the skill,
again, with the digital revolution---
the overwhelming sense of frustration & anxiety enters their veins
as they help the children up to sit next to their parents
or tell the young couple to hold one another &
the build up of emotion must be hid behind the 
fake smile which looms from behind the camera
telling the occupants of the coming photo to
“say cheese,” or some other such
nonsense.

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