I don't know. I can't say I was particularly interested in the family
album as a kid unless a sibling had done something really goofy. As a
teen it was embarrassing. Looking at the family album was one of
those things you sat through when people came to visit. I was not
really interested until middle age and faced the fact that I was
related to those people and not just dropped there by aliens.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Apr 28, 2006, at 1:14 PM, ScottGee1 wrote:
> understand this, but I don't 'get' it.
>
> I like looking at old photo albums and value the few pix my family
> has from
> the past. I was told the families on both side were too poor to
> afford
> cameras and what prints we have were given to them by other people.
>
> However, NONE of the children, grandchildren, nieces or nephews has
> any
> interest in them. At first I was surprised, then appalled, then
> depressed,
> then intrigued.
>
> Why, I wondered, don't they care? I asked and discovered that what
> their
> forebears looked like isn't particularly interesting to them. We
> have pix
> to show that one grandson was almost a twin of his uncle when each
> was a
> year old. That elicits a shrug from said grandson.
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