On Being Given a Photograph from 1929 Backlit by strong sun, in the tall window of the Athens Maternity Hospital,my five-pound mother held bothby a nurse in a nun-like veil, and my grandmother, 21 years old,her long dark hair plaitedin a ...

I felt soul-stunned to receive this photo! What a gift through time.
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