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In An Old Photograph

My mother was once a playful girl, so pretty, framed in the laurel bush, bent in laughter, smile unfurled for the black box camera, and all the world an oyster for my pretty mother, pearl of Georgia, and her sister Lillian, yet to discover Time takes care of pretty and playful,and will attend to it: Black box at the end of it.

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Date: 3/28/2009 6:27:00 AM
Yep! I keep looking at a picture of my mother (long dead) as a young lady, maybe 18...gorgeous!... then another, during the depression - what a wreck the depression made of people. But the old box camera to the rescue. What she once was will stick with me, as well as what she had become, but the former will always win out. Love, daver
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