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Family Photo Album

The family photo album is something I vividly remember. A heavy red or black thick and big leather book with stiff black pages. Inside black and white photos with white deckle edges, showing major life events from the first baby steps to the first day at school, the first bike ride, holidays, birthdays, weekend trips and family members in all different combinations, adolescence, early adulthood and until the next generation enters the picture. Further back in the album the images became colorful though only magenta seemed to be the color most resistent to fading. Between each thick black page was a sheet of transparent waxed paper with an imprinted pattern that reminded of a spider web. How funny that actually is. As if the dust of time had already settled on those old-fashioned albums while there were still in use... Each page had a handwritten note with key information on them: place, date and names.