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<blockquote data-quote="WhereIsTheLight" data-source="post: 39638" data-attributes="member: 3673"><p>School pictures of my difficult child stop at about seventh grade, when she last looked like a little girl. After that, you can just see how she disintegrates, year after year. In one, she is wearing a downright menacing scowl, another a smirk. I can't look at them.</p><p></p><p>When I got divorced, I knew when I could look at pix of DEX and smile and feel warm, I had healed. I feel the same way about difficult child. Right now, I feel very wistful when I see the growing up pictures and the candid ones. What happened?</p><p></p><p>I have more recent pictures of her at work, displayed just so I wouldn't 'hide' her. One with the four of us (with DEX) at her HS graduation. We indeed look like a family. Another in which she is bald and wears a Malcolm X bandana taken at school. Another taken by a friend in her bedroom and professionally developed and mounted. It was shown at an art auction for Katrina relief. I nabbed it for $20.</p><p></p><p>You can tell my co-workers want to say, "Oh, your family is so cute". But they can't. I think she's cute. Especially now, with her growing hair getting curlier and her big brown eyes, and that silly pink spot left on her face from the accident and the road rash.</p><p></p><p>It reminds me of all the scrapes and bumps and tears and hugs of childhood.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WhereIsTheLight, post: 39638, member: 3673"] School pictures of my difficult child stop at about seventh grade, when she last looked like a little girl. After that, you can just see how she disintegrates, year after year. In one, she is wearing a downright menacing scowl, another a smirk. I can't look at them. When I got divorced, I knew when I could look at pix of DEX and smile and feel warm, I had healed. I feel the same way about difficult child. Right now, I feel very wistful when I see the growing up pictures and the candid ones. What happened? I have more recent pictures of her at work, displayed just so I wouldn't 'hide' her. One with the four of us (with DEX) at her HS graduation. We indeed look like a family. Another in which she is bald and wears a Malcolm X bandana taken at school. Another taken by a friend in her bedroom and professionally developed and mounted. It was shown at an art auction for Katrina relief. I nabbed it for $20. You can tell my co-workers want to say, "Oh, your family is so cute". But they can't. I think she's cute. Especially now, with her growing hair getting curlier and her big brown eyes, and that silly pink spot left on her face from the accident and the road rash. It reminds me of all the scrapes and bumps and tears and hugs of childhood. [/QUOTE]
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