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I cannot remember exactly when, but I think it was thirty years ago that I found a castaway Polaroid-type paper negative on the floor in the university I worked in. It was probably a result of these two students getting their ID cards made.

I liked the look of the images (though I had no clue who the people were), and I taped the negative to my office wall where it stayed for many years. Being out in the light served it poorly.

Today, I found it in the basement, where it had fallen out of a box I packed a few years ago when I retired. So I scanned it, reversed the tones and found this.

These handsome twenty-year-olds are about fifty now. I still don't know who they are.

Alan Mays, Old Owl, Berny and 2 other people have particularly liked this photo

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Bob Taylor ^club

Coupled with your narrative, it's quite a poignant and fascinating image.

3 years ago.

Justfolk ^club

:) Thanks, Bob.

3 years ago.

Old Owl ^club

The idea of this is as important as (No, MORE important than) the physical reality of the photograph. They are us, grown older without realising it, still knowing how we were way back when we were twenty and not quite believing that we have changed so much. Even when we look in the mirror we still hope we see ourselves as we were, and inside ourselves we still are.

Thanks for showing this and making me think.

2 years ago.

Justfolk ^club

I'm glad it touched off your thoughts, and lovely thoughts they are.

2 years ago.

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