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[arethinn]

There's a picture on a bookshelf in this house that shows my mom and dad in April 1976 ("Easter at Cami's", says the note on the back, Cami being my father's older brother's wife). That makes my dad a few months from 36 and my mother a few months past 32. It's been there for-ev-ahhh and is one of the major images of my parents I have in my head, besides the "live updated" ones.

I passed by this tonight on the way back from the kitchen and went whoa. That's right: I'm older now than she is in that pic.

enotsola says I look younger now than she did then, which may be true; I wondered aloud if it helped that I would never wear a hideous pink pantsuit like she's wearing in that pic, and he said yes. Still, though. It's... very weird.

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[all_adream]

Yeah, I am older than a lot of people now, family members, rockstars, presidents, people I had crushes on or who were tremendously prominent--and I think a lot of us look better now, in the sense of healthier or more youthful or whatever, even if we don't have botox or whatever (I certainly don't have that stuff, but I probably ate a lot more decent food and vitamins in my life than many of those before me...)