2016.07.24
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There was a little park and playground right across from our house in Waltham.
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Yi, at my job in Salem.
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Mo and her dad. Folder information suggests this is around her brother Dan's thesis concert.
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We travelled to Europe that spring, in part to attend Veronika and Volker's wedding in Germany. The German guests thought I was being charmingly euphemistic when I told them Veronika and I "dated" in high school. Also I learned, don't try and keep up with German guests when there's free red wine being poured.
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The kid of one of V+V's friends. I learned two things playing Pictionary (in English) with Germans: one, the German's view of Aladdin's Lamp is more upright, like a vase. Two, in English (or at least the UK flavor?) technically, a frown is an expression of the brows, not of the mouth.
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We visited my mom who was working in London those years. I've always liked this shot of Mo on the London Eye, Europe's tallest ferris wheel.
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Jane and Julia. Sometimes Jane and I felt like the only liberals at that place, it was a bit square.
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The family reunion was in Belmont that year, here's a little soccer action.
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An in-progress shot of my project for that year, JoustPong for the Atari 2600. I don't want to mix up cause and effect, but sometimes I wonder about if I had put as much focus on Mo's project of getting a house as I had on my own technical endeavor.
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I do enjoy this shot from EB's wedding.
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Halloween Pac-Danger, at the "Paper Source" near Porter.
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Flapper Jane dancing at a masquerade ball Mo and I threw. Sometimes that feels like the last hurrah for me and her and that place and that time; she had realized her interests lay elsewhere.
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BONUS: A few months later I made this composite shot of the park, and called it "Ghost of a Snowman"
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