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I’m not in this family photo because I took it: 
And then I wrote on the back .
It sounds like Jane is not related. Perhaps we just found her… This would’ve been in January, which is summer in Australia, though you might not think so given that half their clothing is winter woolies! It would take us 10 hours to drive from the farm to Sydney for our summer holidays and we went to the beach no matter what the weather.
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I could cry, so beautiful is your post!!
I think I would also look again in my albums.
Thank you Kerstin. So many memories from my childhood. I’m sure you have wonderful photos in your albums too.
AWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So sweet and adorable.
I love your specificity in the note, too. What a treasure!
Hi Robbie! yes, it made me wonder if I thought one day I’d forget my siblings names or not know a boy from a girl’s name.
They are standing in front of what? Soul club?
Yeah, it sounds as if your family drove 10 hours to the beach, snatched a little girl, and drove back home – lol.
Weirder things have happened
@ GOM – and we kept her! I think they are standing in-front of the misspelt surf club. The area is really developed now but the Surf Lifesaving Club is still at that end of the beach.
How do you feel about your own writing as a grown up? When I read things I have written as a kid – it usually makes me squirm..
LOL – well at least then my writing was legible. The scrawl that I call writing now is pretty awful… – too much time on a keyboard; not enough time using a pen.
Why does that sound sooooo familiar……
This is fantastic! You look a total sum of your parents! Good looking folk!
Thank you Lily. My parents were a good looking couple. I think dad looked basically the same all his life.
I concur, as I’ve seen photos!
I was going to say – I’m not the little girl, I’m your sister!!
LOL – it was so strangely worded like you weren’t quite one of us.
The beaches around San Francisco can be freezing in the summer, so it doesn’t surprise me when I see people walking around in wool and sweatshirts on the beach in August.
“Jane the little girl”—LOL! For at least a year my daughters used to refer to their brother as The Baby. Never by his name or as brother, but like, “Mom, The Baby fell off the couch again!” “The Baby just ate a spider!” “The Baby took a poop out of his diaper!” It was as if their brother was an animal we’d brought home as a pet.
LOL that’s funny about your daughters referring to their brother as The Baby & I *love* your examples – I can just imagine those scenarios. My sons did that when I had their little sister as she didn’t have a name for 2 weeks but I think even after she had a name they more often referred to her as “it” .
Wonderful memories…..and I love the way you were running out of space to write on the back.
It takes a lot of space to write so neatly GOF.
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