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MJC got a lesson about her family. A good family. Sadly, a family she won't fully know. My grandfather, her great grandfather, died when I was a month old. My mother tells me I am just like him. So, I told MJC, my niece who seems to have many of my best (haha) qualitites, that she must be like him, too: Loyal. Stubborn. Kind. Loving. Stubborn. Yes, I meant to write it twice.

I shot MJC next to the picutre of generations: My mother, grandfather, Babushka (great grandmother - whom my sister and I both knew well), great-great grandmother...and my sister (MJC's mom) as a toddler. I shot MJC about 40 times...by the end she was melting down. I got a couple neat ones, though.

This was my favorite:


Mom telling MJC who everyone in the picture is/was.