My wife finally got around to going through her late Mom's photo albums.

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8. Well, yes, this is true, if one finds the time.

It took my sister-in-law a few years to send them to us. I don't know why but I have a guess:

It seems she left a lot from her life in the box; since my mother-in-law died I have the sense that the unhappiness of her childhood is coming back to her; she's begun speaking of it, in fact. Maybe she didn't want to open the box.

My wife was also unhappy growing up, but in the pictures I see that even at a young age, she was struggling to make things right; perhaps I'm reading into it based on what I know of her. Her magnificence started somewhere.

I have scanned many pictures over the years, at least those that were important to me. They're backed up. If they should survive, there will come a time when nobody looking at them will know who we were, just as we do not know who many people in my mother-in-law's box.

I have now scanned a few from this very large set, those of my wife and I when we were young, less than ten as of now. I'm sure to do a few more.