The Early Years

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I was going to leave these pictures out and then found that I couldn't - they form a brief montage across the earlier years of my life.  When I get the chance I'll be scanning as many pictures as I can; it's been my desire to put together a family album online for years now.  Until then, I think these belong here.

There is something about this picture that has always touched me, though I don't remember having it taken.  (I have some memories from around this age, but I don't remember this day.)  I look so happy, with the abandon that only children seem to be capable of expressing, standing in that golden sunshine of the earliest years.

This is the ceremony at which I graduated from the ninth grade.  I was able to wrestle my hair into looking good that day and I really loved that dress.  But if I look a little downcast, it's because I was holding in tears.  Yes, I have always been something of a sentimentalist.

This is my tenth grade I.D. picture.  Yes, that's a flannel I'm wearing, but it was the mid-90's.

This is my eleventh grade I.D. picture, and that was a pretty good school year, all told.

Ye senior photo.  Unlike a lot of other people, my senior year was probably the worst of my high school career.  If I ever get to pull a Peggy Sue Got Married, I'm going to dance through those days and probably attend my high school graduation, white robe or no.