Circa 1953

I'm not sure the year this picture was taken.

I am thinking

that I look like I might be around 2 years old.

If so,

then this picture was taken in 1953.

It truly makes me smile.

Mom is smiling,

Dad is either ready to grin,

or trying not to,

Lee looks like he is ready to be ornery

and I look like

I have no idea what is going on.

Something else beings a smile to my face

in a wistful sort of way.

The chair Dad is sitting in belonged to'

Grandpa Winegardner.

(Mom's Dad.)

He had been sick when Lee was born

but did live long enough to see his grandson.

That same chair sits in my living room today.

Lee will be 64 this coming December.

That makes this chair at least 65 . . .

but I know it is lots older than that.

Mom said that this had been Grandpa's favorite chair

leading me to believe he had owned it

for many  years before Lee was  born.

So I smile at the fact this is a family picture

that I still possess.

I smile because I still have Grandpa's chair.

I smile because the memories of

the room we were in

(our living room on Ottawa Street)

is still fresh in my memory . . .

Like I just left it yesterday . . .

Not 38 years ago.

Signed,
Lee's Little Sister and the Baby of the Family
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